Tragedy Quotes

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

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

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it seems to me.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.