Quotes by Tragedy It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. Sinclair Lewis affectionold-friendstragedy All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. Simone Weil imaginereturntragedy Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me. Simone de Beauvoir boringfeel-goodtragedy To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy Smith Wigglesworth tragedyspiritualtwo I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger Sophie Barthes differenttragedytwo The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history. Stephen Jay Gould rare-eventstragedyreal All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world. Stephen Leacock humourtragedyworld When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. Stephen Vizinczey greatnesseyetragedy One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart. Stephen Vincent Benet balancetragedyheart I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being. Steve Coogan tragedyrealgiving I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Steve Coogan discomfortcomedytragedy We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy. Steve Perry importanttragedystories Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. Steven Herrick calmtragedymen The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it. Steve Jobs funny-businesstragedywinning he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way. Stephen King indecisivetragedyway It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. Susan Cain tragedypeopleworld The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior. Susan Cain strongtragedypeople As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation. Susanne Katherina Langer comedytragedyself If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment. Susan Sontag detachmentcomedytragedy Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate. Susanne Katherina Langer destinydifferenttragedy«4344454647484950515253»
