Quotes About Tragedy

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

I just hugged the man that murdered my son.

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!