Quotes About Tragedy

During Partition, my parents, my brother and sisters were killed before my eyes.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

When I go onstage, every situation I have to play, I feel pain. When I sing 'Madama Butterfly' I feel completely everything she felt: It's horrible.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

Your tragedy is God's opportunity to show Himself faithful.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.

What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws.

She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.