Famous Quotes & Sayings

Radha Mitchell

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

Thomas Harris

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

Thomas Kyd

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

Rick Warren

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

Julius Caesar

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Joyce Cary

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

Willard Scott

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

Wislawa Szymborska

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Wes Moore

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

W. Eugene Smith

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

W. C. Fields

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

Voltaire

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

William Butler Yeats

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

Vladimir Putin

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

Winifred Holtby

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Woody Allen

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

Sara Zarr

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Robin Morgan

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

William Dean Howells

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Wolfgang Tillmans

What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.

Steve Coogan

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Ruta Sepetys

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.