Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear.
— Aristotle.
The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling.- Serious Men — Manu Joseph
Customers to whom he'd sold three dollars and six cents' worth of gas the night of the Holcomb tragedy.
— Truman Capote
There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.
— Christopher Paul Curtis
The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
— Joanna Trollope
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
— Arthur Miller
People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.
— Fred D'Aguiar
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
— Irvin D. Yalom
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Now we don't celebrate divorce, of course. But we see it as a personal tragedy, not as a scandal in our witness to the gospel.
— Russell D. Moore
I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.
— George Chuvalo
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
— D.H. Lawrence
The tragedy of the world today is that it starts too near to its problems.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.
— Lydia Leonard
If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.
— John Phillips
There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism
— Dean Cavanagh
Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances. — Richelle E. Goodrich
What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? — Christopher Marlowe
This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. — Rachel Higginson
Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama. — Maryln Schwartz
I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy. — Eric Drooker
God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. — Shannon L. Alder
She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member. — Ann Brashares
Perhaps it is both the tragedy of life and the blessing of life that most moments only happen once. — Glenn Haybittle
Let your Tragedy Make You. Not Break You.-Trudy Love
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The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice — Mortimer J. Adler
In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy. — Agatha Christie
And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another. — Vasily Grossman
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs. — Joseph Stowell
If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way. — James Mangold
The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. — Vance Havner
Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. — Dee Remy
I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology. — Andrew Sarris
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it. — Philip Kerr
That is the tragedy of everyday life: when you are in it, you can never see your self clearly. — Jeff VanderMeer
When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy. — Debasish Mridha
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Jean Racine
Calculated risk is an opportunity;careless risk a potential tragedy. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING? — Justine Bateman
Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life. — Lindsey Davis
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. — Mark Twain
Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect. — Marty Rubin
Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you. — Mel Brooks
Love, like life, isn't a tragedy or a fairy tale - it's both. — Jeannine Allison
There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently. — Arnold Bennett
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians. — Rand Paul
Short on glamour and long on tragedy. — Quentin Reynolds
In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour. — E. Lockhart
All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy. Children of Ankh series — Kim Cormack
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. — Carter Burwell
Sometimes, tragedy is the only wake-up call. — Redd Kaiman
A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. — Jean Anouilh
Life is not tragic. The tragedy is what people do to themselves and to each other. — Marty Rubin
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. — Theodore Roosevelt
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. — Anne Carson
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets. — Patti Smith
Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy. — Anne Fortier
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. — Tony Snow
The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it — Rasheed Ogunlaru
I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy. — Melissa McCarthy
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. — Heywood Broun
A healing heart has no time frame. — Nikki Rowe
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper. — Kathleen Dowling Singh
In childbirth grief begins. — Euripides
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help. — Harold S. Kushner
Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy. — Debasish Mridha
Into every life both tragedy and triumph can fall, and we must learn to meet both with equal serenity. — Aleksandra Layland
Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Macbeth — William Shakespeare
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity. — Nicholas D. Kristof
Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did. — Jane D. Hull
Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it. — Euripides
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. — D.H. Lawrence
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they'd recently added a Tragedy line. — J.R. Ward
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile. — D.H. Lawrence
Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain. — Craig D. Lounsbrough
To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy. — Cus D'Amato
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself. — D.H. Lawrence
It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it. — Michael D. Barnes
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy — Alison Bechdel
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. — D.H. Lawrence
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — William Shakespeare
Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life. — Charles D'Ambrosio
I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting. — Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life is like a story; it unfolds its beauty and tragedy along with your thoughts. — Debasish Mridha
Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making. — Craig D. Lounsbrough
For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he'd never even seen. — Yukako Kabei
The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. — D.R. Silva
But it would be a tragedy to get the right president, the right Congress, and the wrong Christ. — Russell D. Moore
The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last. — P.D. James
