Quotes
Quotes about Tragedy
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.
Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
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.
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.
The great tragedy of scienceâ the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books)
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to dieâwhether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
Comedy is tragedy - plus time
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
