Tragedy Quotes
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I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
Simon Rattle
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
Nora Roberts
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To be what is called happy, one should have something to live on, something to live for, something to die for.The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in tragedy.
Cyprian Norwid
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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
Steve Coogan
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The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.
Dario Robleto
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London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.
Edgar Wallace
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With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
Steve Rushin
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I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.
Eric Drooker
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It’s a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest.
Eugene J. Martin
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So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Yeah I had all kinds of reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for perpetual study. I think in Nigeria, it is the potential which hits people and makes them believe in Nigeria. It tends to make them react when they see potentials being wasted and it is a tragedy to see potentials wasted. But paradoxically, it is a realization of the existence, that positive, that keeps many Nigerians and even foreign people going.
Wole Soyinka
