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Tragedy Quotes

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

George Pierce Baker

View Comedy Point Of View Tragedy

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Death Man Story Tragedy Now High

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Sleep Prison Someone Tragedy Lost

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Strength Key Tragedy Heroes Greatest

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

Failure Great Peace War Tragedy

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

Anna Deavere Smith

Car Racism Wake Up Tragedy Want Up

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

Wife Death Man Tragedy Lucky Real

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

Jeff Fortenberry

Tragedy Create Policy Refugee Could

Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.

Bernard Williams

History Ideas Society Tragedy Place

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

Respect Conflict Powerful Tragedy

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Comedy You Tragedy Will Become Like

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Comedy You Tragedy Always Discomfort

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

William Barclay

Life God Men World Tragedy Know

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

Life Effort Grace Universe Tragedy

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

You Dark Tragedy Too Much Dark Side

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Words Journalism Country Tragedy Say

One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

Nicholas Kristof

Death Tragedy Million Deaths

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Roberto Benigni

Think Reach Tragedy Sometimes Only

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

James Branch Cabell

Love Love Is People Results Tragedy

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

Time Comedy Tragedy Different Plus

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Man World Genius Tragedy Different

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

Lucinda Williams

Focus Loss Tragedy Mean Whose Songs

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Poverty Tragedy Poor Real

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

Joyce Carol Oates

Nature History Me Think Tragedy

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