History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.
It’s a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Perhaps we could do without tragedy in art – but what about comedy? Is it a coincidence that so many of the best American humorists have been Jewish and African-American?
In my life, I’ve dealt with tragedy.
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment – now, as in the 1930s – is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.
I’ve had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don’t get elsewhere. Partly that’s to do with the tragedy of the clearances, and that so much of the landscape has been owned by so few people that didn’t want it messed around with.
The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn’t take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It’s exciting! Tragedy! Fodder for a cable-news frenzy.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
‘Tragedy’ and ‘Loud City Song’ are both inspired by stories from the past.
I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Obama, Bloomberg, and the national gun-ban media frequently exploit tragedy, using fear and lies to sell their agenda to non-gun owners, especially when it comes to election season. This is their traditional playbook.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
I can’t say my life has been dominated by tragedy. I refuse to accept that. I’ve had less than some, more than others.
I put my heart into ‘Vaaranam Ayiram.’ I lost my father when I began the film, and the tragedy turned my entire script around.
In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That’s the comedy that I like.
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
The tragedy of the UPA is not that it didn’t do anything, but that it is not able to take credit for what it has done. By staying silent when it should have been shouting from the rooftop and by protecting the guilty, it surrendered the governance agenda to AAP.
It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.
For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it’s in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the next comedy.
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.
I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.
