Tragedy Quotes

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.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

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.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.

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.

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.