Tragedy Quotes

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

~ Joyce Meyer

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

~ Jeff Bridges

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

~ Roberto Benigni

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

~ Juliette Binoche

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

~ James Madison

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

~ Robert Kennedy

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

~ Rahul Gandhi

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

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

~ Sholom Aleichem

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this.

~ Giles Andreae

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

~ Charlie Chaplin

I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

~ Tasha Smith

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

~ Jason Ritter

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

~ Per Petterson

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

~ Jack Abramoff

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

~ George Pataki

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

~ Norman Borlaug