Quotes About Tragedy

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

Several years ago, a boy I knew and loved killed himself.

The quote is from Virginia Woolf's suicide note to her husband, but I think it fits the occasion.

You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival – your emotional survival – will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy.

and so the preacher talks about the tragedy of someone dying so young, of a life ended too soon, of possibilities never realized.

and a person is dead.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.