Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Myles Munroe

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Mike Birbiglia

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

Nathan Fillion

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Julian Barnes

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Olivia Thirlby

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

Olivia Wilde

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

Mark Twain

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Mark Rosenker

This is a tragedy that should not have happened.

Gilbert Gottfried

With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

Henry Miller

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

George Eliot

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

Jeanette Winterson

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

Jeff Bridges

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

The whole world should feel that this tragedy is its own.

The tragedy of 9-11 weighed heavily on him.

Nick Frost

God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Michael Bay

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Mason Cooley

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

Mason Cooley

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Marie Osmond

Tragedy plus time equals humor

Mignon McLaughlin

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

Michael M. Honda

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

Patrick Ness

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

Patrick Rothfuss

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

Dave Grohl

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Greg Graffin

Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.