best quotations about
Tragedy |
and Drama
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Quotations
 | In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 9 likes |
 | Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 8 likes |
 | The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 6 likes |
| All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | The tragedy of a man is greater when he gives it up. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 5 likes |
 | Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 3 likes |
 | The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 3 likes |
 | Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 3 likes |
 | It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 2 likes |
 | Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 2 likes |
 | Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as a tragedy, the second time as farce. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 2 likes |
| Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
| Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. |
 | It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. |
 | All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. |
Ancient Greek
 | Whoever knows about tragedy, knows about epics too. Όστις περί τραγωδίας οίδε, οίδε και περί επών. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
