Quotes About Tragedy

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don't accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.

And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

When the tragedy begins and the boat begins to sink I will do anything in my power to help save my mates if they reuse my help I have no choice but to jump ship to help myself

When the tragedy begins and the boat begins to sink. I will do everything in my power to help save my mates, if they refuse my help I have no choice but to jump ship to save myself

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.