1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.

My life is nothing more than bad timing separated by unimaginable moments of tragedy. I'd reconciled my pain with the promise of revenge ... until her.

Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.

This thing isn’t so serious, life. The greatest moments of tragedy are lost without a bit of levity.

Because the comic hero deviates, by the nature of his role, from social norms, he leads an alienated existence: he is slapped, reviled, insulted, treated as an outcast, disinherited. Yet he bears everything with the rigid patience of the wise Fool, whose foolery is in his passport to safety.(In her introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)

In tragedy anything comic is a blemish and in comedy anything tragic is ugly

Comedy can have its anagnorisis too, when the foolish recognise their folly.

Because the comic hero deviates, by the nature of his role, from social norms, he leads an alienated existence: he is slapped, reviled, insulted, treated as an outcast, disinherited. Yet he bears everything with the rigid patience of the wise Fool, whose foolery is in his passport to safety.(In his introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)

I've acted all my life. All the world's a stage.''It's not.' Bressac tapped his nose thoughtfully. 'There's no rehearsal, no proper audience, no intermission, one performance only. Behind the scenes there are only more scenes. You can't tell if it's a tragedy or a comedy, but you know that, sooner or later, it'll be an historical. Daggers have solid blades and the blood is real.