You get annoyed about things in real life, and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus’ fold.
What’s the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it’s not that way.
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
I don’t see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I’m writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It’s not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.
A tragic car accident put me in a wheelchair and dashed my hopes and dreams for the future.
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there’s something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think – I believe – it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.
A lot of them have families to feed, and I think it’s a tragic situation where players aren’t comfortable speaking what’s on their mind or what’s right because they’re afraid of consequences that come along with it. That’s not an ideal environment for anybody.
It’s tragic from how far we’ve come from ‘Hope and Change’.
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn’t such a tragic ending.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. ‘Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
It’s a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I love drama, and I love drama where there’s the ability to bring comedy into it because in a lot of tragic circumstances in life there is comedy to be had.
The fact that we are I don’t know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
Restoring the rights of individuals who have served their time and reentered society is the right thing to do. Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement policy is rooted in a tragic history of voter suppression and marginalization of minorities, and it needs to be overturned.
To me, when something’s really funny, there’s, like, a wildness to it, and it’s very close to the wildness of something potentially tragic or gross. It’s all very close to each other when you have that extreme level of feeling.
Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges.
There’s something about Michael J. Fox that I loved when he did all the ’80s stuff. His way of performing all the physicality, which is why it’s so tragic now, but the way he used his body so much as well, I loved.
Let’s face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful forty-two-year-old woman. With half her life still ahead of her, she was deemed to be at the end of something–namely, everything society valued in her, other than her success as a mother.
Michael Brown’s tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.
I have not had tragic incidences in my life that have rocked my personal being. The thing that really has been my biggest enemy in this world has been pressure. And people. People who I love. People who look at me differently. The pressure is tough, man. I’m not gonna lie. It’s the hardest part. Easily.
Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.
Some guys lay their fannies out there every night – they play the game at such a high level, and they give so much that, frankly, they don’t get credit for it. And I think it’s tragic sometimes.
I see this beautiful and tragic world, and I do my best to describe it, because it’s been crushing to me since I was a kid. It seems to be how I connect.
On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.
Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
We were making ‘Tragic Kingdom,’ and we were kind of battling with the record company. It was just being drawn-out, in the same kind of situation where we were all working, we all had jobs, we were going to school.
9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.
It’s sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I’m ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
The loss of my father marked my life. I’m 88 years old and I’m still mourning him because it’s such a drama for me. It was just after my bar mitzvah and it was so tragic. The effect on me, I carry it all my life.
It’s easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record as the most-awarded female act of all time, with over 415 major recognitions during her career. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive number one songs.
I love the tragic side. I don’t do ‘happy’ onstage. I like the dark, the disturbed.
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.
Every photograph is the photographer’s opinion about something. It’s how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.
I’m fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There’s something about that period that’s epic and tragic.
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he’s somebody whom I’ve been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ at age four.
The Greek tragic mask is one of my main metaphors for the role of the poet. The eyes of the tragic mask are always open to witness even the worst, and the mouth is always open to make poetry from it. Neither ever close.
My cousin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and it’s just a really tragic disease, and as of yet there is no cure, so I feel I want to get it as much publicity to do it as I can.
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
I don’t need drugs to make my life tragic.
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
I think I am fascinated with slightly tragic characters.
I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I’ve only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
No one wants to stop paying football – it’s just that your body can’t. That’s tragic.
We have the most crude accounting tools. It’s tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn’t tell us the things that we need to know.
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it’s absurd. But it’s tragic at the same time.
It is a very beautiful story, ‘The Crow.’ It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
