Quotes About Tragedy

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

He killed them with their love

One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.

people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or her portion of unhappiness and wake up nights.

they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

Like measles, mumps, or rubella, tragedy was contagious. Unlike those diseases, there was no vaccine.

An accident is sometimes an unhappy woman's best friend.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.

The only loss is death.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

A pair of star-crossed lovers.

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.