It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over a unilateral U.S. strike against Baghdad.
It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
I consider tragedy the highest form of art.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.
I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
