Quotes: Tragedy

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means – and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we’d all sit here and cry.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.