Quotes About Tragedy

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same.

Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.

I love the tragic side. I don't do 'happy' onstage. I like the dark, the disturbed.

Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.

The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented.

People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.

There's something about the girls and the boys who just live for the moment and don't think a second beyond their needs and the here and now that, ultimately, is pretty tragic.

We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

Even the most tragic moments can have moments of comedy.

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

All of our actions have consequences whether we know it or not. We never know what people are going through until something tragic happens - if they don't talk about it.

With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.

What makes something tragic is that it could've been averted at multiple points.

I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so many other things than just funny.

What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.

I certainly understand the pain that has been brought about by the tragic death of Breonna Taylor. I understand that as a Black man.