Quotes About Tragedy

John Green, Looking for Alaska

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

All geniuses die young.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate

Cancer is always funny.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself.

I'm an American so its kind of hard for me to talk about 9/11. So whenever someone brings it up in a conversation, I say "I didn't like 9/11."

And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.

Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan's library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn't finished coloring either one of them.

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.