Tragedy Quotes And Sayings

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“More than any other setting – more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel – I’ll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.”
– Joyce Maynard

“It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.”
– Judy Collins

“My book ‘Trust Your Heart’, which is the story of my life, will be followed by ‘Singing Lessons’, a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.”
– Judy Collins

“I’ve never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn’t choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.”
– Juliette Binoche

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
– Karl Marx

“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”
– Karl Marx

“Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I’ve only had tragic haircuts and outfits.”
– Kylie Minogue

“I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we’re fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.”
– Lake Bell

“The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.”
– Laurence Olivier

“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.”
– Lenny Bruce

“In my life, I’ve dealt with tragedy.”
– Leona Lewis

“To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio

“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.”
– Lester B. Pearson

“If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody’s mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.”
– Lillian Hellman

“It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland’s daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years – except they had little to do with being a child.”
– Liza Minnelli

“I mean, whose songs don’t focus on tragedy and loss?”
– Lucinda Williams

“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I think there’s a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that’s a beautiful line.”
– Maximilian Schell

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
– Mel Brooks

“Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.”
– Michael Bloomberg

“My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.”
– Michael Sheen

“Effort without talent is a depressing situation… but talent without effort is a tragedy.”
– Mike Ditka

“When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.”
– Monica Bellucci

“There’s comedy even in tragedy. There’s comedy in life. And in ‘Castle’, we go for that comedy.”
– Nathan Fillion

“In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.”
– Norman Cousins

“The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily – that’s the tragedy.”
– Olivia Wilde

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.”
– Oscar Wilde

“How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.”
– Paul Sweeney

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