(1012 quotes found)
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Karl Marx
“Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
William Faulkner
“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.”
Helen Hayes
“I don't know what humor is. Anything that's funny -- tragedy or anything, it don't make no difference so [long as] you happen to hit it just right. But there's one thing I'm proud of -- I ain't got it in for anybody. I don't like to make jokes that hurt anybody.”
Will Rogers
“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability”
William Feather
“Comedy is tragedy plus time.”
Carol Burnett
“A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin
“Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
D.H. Lawrence
“he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'”
William Butler Yeats
