Quotes About Tragedy

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

The way I see it, he's all we have left ofher.

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

This terrible tragedy.... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

It's not Spring Break until somebody dies!

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

He kills her in her own humor.

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.