Quotes About Tragedy

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.

And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all the rules and avoid all the perils but still fall into some absurd situation at which their neighbors and the spirits themselves had to laugh and not furtively either but with great guffaws. The world was tragic, and fine men and strong animals died arbitrarily, but it was also so preposterous that sometimes the crests of mountains seemed to bend together in laughter.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Paolo and Francesca were not ideal readers since they confess to Dante that after the first kiss they read no more. Ideal readers would have kissed and then read on.

German surgeon Johann Paul Kremer warned in his Auschwitz diary, By comparison, Dante's inferno seems almost a comedy') but as metaphor.

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

you can't make tragedies without social instability.

our world is not the same as Othello's world. . . you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now.

Pero las lágrimas son necesarias. ¿No recuerda lo que dice Otelo? "¡Si tras cada tempestad vienen tales calmas, soplen los vientos hasta que despierten a la muerte.

You can't make tragedies without social instability.

The work of a hundred years destroyed in a single night. And yet the fact remained - the fact of the ending of sorrow as well as the fact of sorrow.

Porque nuestro mundo no es el mundo de Otelo. No se pueden fabricar coches sin acero; y no se pueden crear tragedias sin inestabilidad social.

There are born victims, born to have their throats cut.

Love must be like a great tragedy. … Like the greatest mystery in the world! None of mundane comforts, calculations and compromises must touch it.

He fell to the ground like an olive tree, young, beautiful, strong, covered with white blossoms, suddenly shattered by a bolt of lightning in a storm.

così, senza saperlo, ereditiamo l'incapacità verso la tragedia, e la predestinazione alla forma minore del dramma.

It wasn't easy to develop a healthy personality when the canals of your flagellate chambers were held in common with an invaginated mother, incestuous sisters and a bisexual father. When the only anatomical features on which you could construct an identity were the gastral cavity and the aperture of your osculum. The tragedy of being a vegetable was that you couldn't commit suicide. The advantage of being a sponge was that you could drown your sorrows.

Something terrible happened and people began to shake. It was the reminder that frightened them; the reminder of just how close to the edge we are in life, always, at every moment.