Tragedy Quotes And Sayings

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“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up… a lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.”
– Helen Hayes

“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.”
– Henry A. Kissinger

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we’re passing one another without a look of recognition.”
– Henry Miller

“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
– Horace Walpole

“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
– Horace Walpole

“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.”
– Hypatia

“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”
– Irvin S. Cobb

“Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.”
– Jack Dee

“Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.”
– Jacques Barzun

“People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.”
– James Branch Cabell

“A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
– James Madison

“Tragedy makes you grow up.”
– Jane Campion

“Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.”
– Jane Smiley

“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”
– Jean Anouilh

“The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.”
– Jean Cocteau

“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”
– Jean Racine

“I love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific.”
– Jeff Bridges

“What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness – a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren’t possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.”
– Jeffrey Kluger

“It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.”
– Jim Gerlach

“The tragedy for comedians is there’s nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It’s almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.”
– Jimmy Carr

“Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn’t put it down – I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.”
– Joan Didion

“Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.”
– Joe Paterno

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.”
– John Walsh

“I don’t understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?”
– Joni Mitchell

“In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.”
– Joni Mitchell

“One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.”
– Joseph Stalin

“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
– Joseph Stalin

“I consider tragedy the highest form of art.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

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