Tragedy quotes

“- Kumail: What's my stance on 9/11? Oh um, anti. It was a tragedy, I mean we lost 19 of our best guys.
- Beth: Huh?
- Kumail: That was a joke, obviously. 9/11 was a terrible tragedy. And it's not funny to joke about it.”
Kumail Nanjiani - Kumail
Holly Hunter - Beth

“Hamlet's mother she's the queen, buys it in the final scene, drinks a glass of funky wine, now she's Satan's Valentine.”

Danny DeVito - Bill Rago

“We are the last living survivors from our prison block. Besides me, you are the only person who could still recognize the man who killed our families.”

Martin Landau - Max Rosenbaum

“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. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Helen Hayes

“- Ray Kinsella: It would kill some men to get so close to their dream and not touch it. God, they'd consider it a tragedy.
- Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham: Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes... now that would have been a tragedy.”
Kevin Costner - Ray Kinsella
Burt Lancaster - Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham

“When two people love each other and they can't make that work, that's the real tragedy.”
Rosamund Pike - Amy Dunne

“Tragedy, comedy, all is one.”
Cary Elwes - Gavin Hawk

“Can you see my dog, Bub? He was hit by an animal rescue van. Tragic and ironic.”
Tucker Albrizzi - Neil

“Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything. Creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild.”
Kristen Bell - Veronica Mars

“ How many great stories are tragedies?”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Hercule Poirot

“Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough.”
Joseph Fiennes - Fred Waterford

“I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a comedy.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Arthur Fleck

“If you think of yourself as funny, you become tragic.”
Seymour Cassel - Seymour Moskowitz

“In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.”
Sidney Lumet

“- Sharmeen: I was so worried. We saw on the news that a train derailed, and we thought that you were on the train, and you had died.
- Kumail: Nobody died on that train, ma.
- Sharmeen: But did they look under the train?”
Zenobia Shroff - Sharmeen
Kumail Nanjiani - Kumail

“Comedy is tragedy plus time!”
Alan Alda - Lester

“In every life, no matter how full or empty one's purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills.”
John Barry Humphries - Mrs. Crummles

“For me the best drama is one that deals with a man in danger.”
Howard Hawks

“It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
Jack Lemmon

“In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.”
Charlton Heston

“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.”
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“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.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
Michael Fassbender - Macbeth

“- Comic: So first, we need a historical event. Who's got an event?
- Ted: 9/11!
- Comic: Oh oh, okay. Okay, maybe something else. Uh, let's start with a person.
-John: Robin Williams!
- Comic: Okay, alright. For real, guys, for real. Who's got a person?
- Ted: Robin Williams on 9/11!”
Steve Callaghan - Comic
Seth MacFarlane - Ted
Mark Wahlberg - John Bennett

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
Lynn Kennedy - Middle-Aged Witch