333 Tragedy Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.' Jeff Lindsay

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What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering. Jeffrey Kluger

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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon. Jenny Weber

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Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant. Jesse Kellerman

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Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible. Jim McKay

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The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are. Jimmy Chin

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After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy. Joel Grey

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There are some stunning visual moments in 'Arrival' that are out of this world, but it's all on the earth, and it's about an academic, a woman that is dealing with a personal tragedy, but there's a circular view of time that makes things more complicated. Johann Johannsson

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

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It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy. John Dyer

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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. John Guare

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I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready. John Hickenlooper

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Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre. John Ross Bowie

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Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it. Jonathan Dimbleby

I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad. Jonathan Raymond

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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. Joni Mitchell

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