Quotes About Tragedy

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.

Its hard to take in. One of our most talented singer songwriters has left us. RIP George Michael. Such sad, tragic news. 2016 please end.

A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

Everybody wants to collaborate with me. I was going to collaborate with Whitney Houston, but she died. Very sad, man. We were very good friends.

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.