Quotes tagged ‘Tragedy’

“Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime.”

— Bo Burnham, imdb.com

“Now I understand death. I know what loss is.”

— Mike Flanagan, Dani Clayton, Victoria Pedretti, imdb.com

“Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough.”

— Lynn Renee Maxcy, Margaret Atwood, Commander Fred Waterford, Joseph Fiennes, imdb.com

“Tragedy, comedy, all is one.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Gavin Hawk, Cary Elwes, imdb.com

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.”

— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com

“I used to think that my life was a tragedy. But now I realize, it’s a comedy.”

— Todd Phillips, Scott Silver, Arthur Fleck / Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, imdb.com

“I had just moved out to try to teach her a lesson so that she would beg me to come back. I’d planned on going back. She kept saying, 'When are you coming?' I kept acting like the music was too loud and I couldn’t hear. I was really just playing a game. She left, and then I left after that and we pas…”

— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com

“This whole beautiful country, to which we have given our souls, is utterly doomed. It's going to be wiped out of human memory. Our entire heritage, even our name, our ancestors' names, wiped out, all wiped out!”

— Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff, Count von Kaltenborn, Armin Mueller-Stahl, imdb.com

“I’m not an entertainer, I’m not an actor. I’m a kid who went through a tragedy who saw the suffering that his community went through and doesn’t want to see it for any other community.”

— Kyle Kashuv, thehill.com

“Sheriff Pembroke: Sometimes to deal with tragedies, we make up urban legends. Bird: This wasn’t an urban legend, this was real.”

— Lars Klevberg, Blair Butler, Bird Fitcher, Kathryn Prescott, imdb.com

“I’m so grateful for the tragedy of losing faith because I think it was a necessary path. It was a path we had to be on.”

— Lisa Gungor, relevantmagazine.com

“Barry, the world isn’t different because you changed the timeline. Change happens. Tragedy happens. People make choices, and those choices affect everyone else. You’re not a god, Barry.”

— Aaron Helbing, Todd Helbing, Oliver Queen, Stephen Amell, imdb.com

“Tim: I'm quite good with angst and tragedy. Lee: You grew up in a cul-de-sac in Henley, what do you know about tragedy? Tim: The Greeks invented it, Shakespeare wrote about it, the Bee-Gees sang it and Steps covered it.”

— Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Tim Adams, Tim Vine, imdb.com

“Tragedy either makes people appreciate their fellow men, or fear them.”

— Jon Harmon Feldman, Seth Wright, Kal Penn, imdb.com

“What I do to get rid of pressure is say, ‘It doesn’t matter.’ It makes life a lot easier. ... We think it’s so important what we’re doing. ... But you have an earthquake in India where 100,000 people die. You’ll have some huge problem going on in Africa where so many people are just being killed vic…”

— Donald Trump, edition.cnn.com

“Fred Mertz: Hey Rick, are you doing anything Monday night? Ricky Ricardo: I don't think so. It's my night off, why? Fred Mertz: I'd like you to join me in commemoration of an 18-year-old tragedy. Ricky Ricardo: What do you mean? Fred Mertz: Well, it's our wedding anniversary. Ricky Ricardo: Oh, you…”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

“It’s not possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.”

— Mark Richard, Lauren Signorino, Victor Strand, Colman Domingo, imdb.com

“Captain Flint: You were right. About the toll it took. Playing this... part. Losing Miranda. The... things that losing Miranda drove me to. So, I know what you're feeling at the moment. John Silver: I perceived its effects on you. What I assumed was sorrow, loneliness, and, most of all, terror at th…”

— Marc Berzenski, Josh Rothenberger, John Silver, Luke Arnold, imdb.com

“It is all the same with we women. We just give birth to the slaughtered.”

— Michael Hirst, Torvi, Georgia Hirst, imdb.com

“People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com