Tragedy quotes
59 tragedy quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Macbeth
- From the movie: The Time Machine
“You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back in time and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy.”
- From the movie: Cutter's Way
- From the movie: The Man in the Iron Mask
- From the movie: Sinister 2
“- Courtney Collins: How were they killed?
- Ex-Deputy So & So: ...You don't want to know.” - From the movie: In The Heart Of The Sea
“The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.”
- From the movie: Donnie Darko
“Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.”
- From the movie: My Best Friend's Wedding
“The misery! The exquisite tragedy! The Susan Hayward of it all!”
- From the movie: My Boyfriend's Back
- From the movie: Titanic
“- 1st Officer Petersen: In the event of tragedy, there isn't nearly enough room in the lifeboats for even a small portion of the passengers.
- Sir Bruce Ismay: Enough of your pessimism.
- 1st Officer Petersen: It's not pessimism. It's our duty to consider every possibility.” - La trovi in Career in Cinema
“It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.”
- From the movie: What Dreams May Come
“- Chris Nielsen: Where is God in all of this?
- Albert Lewis: Oh, he's up there. Somewhere shouting down that he loves us. Wondering why we can't hear him. You think?” - From the movie: Lord of War
“There are two types of tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.”
- From the movie: The Pacifier
“Once upon a time, there was a family of... elves. And one day the... little elf... family went into the magic forest to look for a secret... gnome... facility. The gnomes were turning mushrooms into uranium, so three of the elves laid down heavy suppressive fire on the gnomes, while the others manoeuvered around to the right flank, killing all...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”
- From the movie: Clash of the Titans
“I was partial to tragedy in my youth. That was before experience taught me that life was tragical enough without my having to write about it.”
- From the movie: The Bonfire of the Vanities
“This is a tragedy! A fine young man has been struck down. God-fearing, church-going, never in trouble, graduating from high school, ready for college - and somebody comes along - some rich white people in a rich white man's car and wham! They run him down and never even stop. Now what are we going to do about these parking tickets?”
- From the movie: A Christmas Story
“Life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us.”
- From the movie: Superman Returns
- From the movie: The Ring
- From the movie: The Ghost of Frankenstein
“I have replaced an evil brain with a good one. I have made amends for the great tragedies my father and my brother unintentionally brought to this community. I have restored the good name of Frankenstein.”
- From the movie: Passport to Paris
- From the movie: Titanic
“1,500 people went into the sea when Titanic sank from under us. There were 20 boats floating nearby and only one came back. One. 6 were saved from the water, myself included. 6... out of 1,500. Afterward, the 700 people in the boats had nothing to do but wait. Wait to die, wait to live, wait for an absolution that would never come.”
- From the movie: Shakespeare in Love
“Well, that would have them rolling in the aisles.”
- From the movie: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“We are tragedians, you see? We follow directions. There is no choice involved. The bad end unhappily, the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”
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