Tragedy Quotes

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. (Richard Bach)
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. View quote
Joseph Stalin
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. View quote
Horace Walpole
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. View quote
Mel Brooks
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. View quote
Václav Havel
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Charlie Chaplin)
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. View quote
Steven Weinberg
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. View quote
Angela Carter
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done. View quote
John Galsworthy
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. View quote
Gilda Radner
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. (Oscar Wilde)
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. View quote
Peter Shaffer
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. View quote
William Dean Howells
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy. View quote
Dan Brown
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. View quote
Jean Cocteau