Tragedy Quotes And Sayings

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“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.”
– Pierre Corneille

“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.”
– Plato

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.”
– Richard Bach

“Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.”
– Rita Mae Brown

“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”
– Robert Half

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
– Robert Kennedy

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

“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.”
– Seth Graham-Smith

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
– Sholom Aleichem

“I’ve always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.”
– Steve Coogan

“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.”
– Steve Coogan

“I’m a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.”
– Steve Coogan

“The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
– Thomas Huxley

“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.”
– Tom Cochrane

“The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”
– Tom Stoppard

“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.”
– Tony Blair

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
– Vaclav Havel

“September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.”
– Vernon Jordan

“There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.”
– Walter Hagen

“Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not your fault.”
– Werner Herzog

“The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.”
– William Barclay

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
– William Butler Yeats

“The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.”
– William Feather

“In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.”
– Wislawa Szymborska

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