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Tragedy Quotes

Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

Me Comedy Tragedy Try Always Line

There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.

Tragedy Kind Events Everyone Happen

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Comedy Tragedy Even Shakespeare

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

Relationship Think Tragedy Explore

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

History Tragedy First Second Itself

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

People Thinking Tragedy Bold Empty

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

Teacher Hell Tragedy Much Strict

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Beginning Action End Tragedy Middle

A lot of queer stories revolve around tragedy.

Tragedy Revolve Queer Stories Around

It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

People Think Feel Tragedy Way Up

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

Barry Eichengreen

Experience Society Enough Tragedy

The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling - and never get it back again. So I always try to roll the camera before anybody's really ready.

Camera You Back Tragedy Ready Want

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.

Sea Society Tragedy Shepherd Greater

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Science Beautiful Great Ugly Tragedy

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.

People Ignore Tragedy Holocaust Deny

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.

Memories Me Tragedy Triumph Games

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Deep Compromise Self You Tragedy

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.

Tragedy President Right Get Did

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

Business Doing Tragedy Well Our Too

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

Excellence Losing Game Worth Tragedy

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

Henry Kissinger

War People America Tragedy Within

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

Art Tragedy Go Entertainment Level

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

Time Think Tools Tragedy Become Who

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

Andrei Codrescu

Tragedy Circumstances Way Greatest

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