Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

William Butler Yeats

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

Vladimir Putin

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

Winifred Holtby

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Wislawa Szymborska

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Wes Moore

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

W. Eugene Smith

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

W. C. Fields

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

William Dean Howells

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Radha Mitchell

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Rahul Gandhi

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

Lenny Bruce

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Simone Weil

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Steve Perry

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

Shirley Manson

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

Shepard Smith

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

Tig Notaro

I am just at tragedy right now.

Susan Sontag

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

Rick Warren

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

Steve Coogan

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

Ruta Sepetys

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

Wolfgang Tillmans

What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.