I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy. But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea. "
Tragedies happen, accidents happen.
There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love. . . and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.
Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story. . . They are terrible people.
Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
The commission had to subpoena the F. A. A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full story. That is one of the tragedies. One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up.
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
You've got all these parents who are projecting their pathologies of fear onto their kids and those kids are understandably messed up. Tragedies happen and that you have to allow kids to experience their own fear and guilt and sorrow. It's the cover-up that really screws people over. Unfortunately, America specializes in cover-ups.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.