Tragedy Quotes - page 3

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. (Erma Bombeck)
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. View quote
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. View quote
Lenny Bruce
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. View quote
Walter Scott
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. View quote
Edward Abbey
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. View quote
Maxwell Anderson
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. View quote
Robert Shea
We learn from tragedy. Slowly. View quote
Josephine Hart
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. (Karen Joy Fowler)
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy. View quote
Chris Cleave
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. View quote
Lee Strobel
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups. View quote
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well. View quote
Hunter Tylo
If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are-hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. View quote
Indira Gandhi
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best. View quote
Paulo Coelho
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy. (Lee Kuan Yew)
If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true. View quote
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
The tragedy of love is indifference. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer. View quote
Miriam Makeba
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right. View quote
Amos Oz