Quotes about Tragedy
His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.
- Samuel Johnson
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
- Ellen Glasgow
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.
- Myles Munroe
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
- Oscar Wilde
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
- George W. Bush
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
- DH Lawrence
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
- Dan Quayle
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.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
- Pope John Paul II
If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
- Ricky Gervais