1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.""You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Comedy is tragedy sped up.

Forget now. Live.

I am already ready to remedy any tragedy with a steady coming comedy.

The unity between tragedy and comedy appears then, 'Je Suis'. Neither tears of mirth nor of sorrow, and yet passing through the two.

It occurred to Midhat that a tragic story told quickly might contract easily into a comedy, and without the measure of its depths make the audience laugh.

In a tragic contradiction between the normal and the exceptional, there is suffering, in a comic contradiction, none.

Mary the Canary lives in a cloud of perfume and colours. She's an auxiliary nurse by day and a country and western singer by night: bed pans and power ballass. She's so glamorous she makes Mrs Hart look plain. She is the other woman and I'm bring trained to hate her even though I've never met her.

What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.