Quotes About Tragedy

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

The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There's a notion that if you think positively enough, you can make anything happen by using the power of your mind. All the positive thinking in the world won't deliver good fortune or prevent tragedy from striking.

Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

Flamenco is the reflection of the street. It's that thing that's so beautiful, that comes directly from the people. It has so much truth, tragedy, falling in love, falling out of love, flamenco has it all. You can learn so much, that's why it's so incredible and so beautiful.

Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibly imagine. Keep in mind, I am an only child, so I was always fiercely close with both my parents. The tragedy my father and I endured when my mother passed created a bond between us that no amount of force can break.

Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

The tragedy is that political leaders failed so badly at delivering what Iraqis clearly wanted - and for that, a great deal of responsibility lies with Prime Minister Maliki.

A lot of queer relationships on television and in films are met with extreme tragedy.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.