Tragedy Quotes

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.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

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.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

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

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

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.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.