Quotes About Tragedy

That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.

People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

The millennial generation wants to express every feeling to feel like you're connected to it, and there's something very dark about tragedy that people are drawn to.

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.

The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling - and never get it back again. So I always try to roll the camera before anybody's really ready.

Even in the face of tragedy, human beings need to find a way to laugh. It's normal. It's life.

Generally speaking, cancer - not that funny of a thing. When you hear about it, you don't go, 'Oh, hilarious!'... But within that - comedy, tragedy, hand-in-hand.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.

I am always aware that I've had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.

There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.

When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'

I had always been moved by the story and love of Antony and Cleopatra. Their love moved and changed the world. While their love ended in tragedy, their love endured the march of time. Their passion lit the world on fire.

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.

The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.

Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.

The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.

A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.

Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.