Best tragedy & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.”

“I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.”

“All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.”

Men Needs Father Hell Tragedy Handle Sense Of Humor

Author:P.B. Kerr

“A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.”

Needs Order Growing Progress Willing Tragedy Life Changing Need A Change Wasted Life Great Tragedy Willing To Change

Book:Answers to Life's Difficult Questions

Source: Answers to Life's Difficult Questions

“In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.”

Men Needs Matter Natural Events Tragedy Disaster Inexplicable Rough Times Natural Disaster

Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

“A lot of issues need to be swept under the carpet---and poof, along comes SARS. Whether or not its appearance was coordinated, up front, to coincide with these scandals and tragedies in Iraq, one thing is for sure. SARS has been used as a smokescreen to keep the global public diverted and in fear.”

Needs Has Beens Used Issues One Thing Fronts Tragedy Iraq Appearance Scandal Carpet Sars

Author:Jon Rappoport

“Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.”

Knows Needs Know How Tragedy Dear How To Love

Author:Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

“There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.”

Needs Country Hands Artist Literature Comedy Materials Tragedy Perseverance Leisure

Book:Iola Leroy (EasyRead Large Edition)

Source: Iola Leroy (EasyRead Large Edition)

“The importance of making sure that the sense of accountability when, in fact, law enforcement is involved in a deadly shooting is something that I think communities across the board are going to need to consider, we have a great opportunity, coming out of some great conflict and tragedy, to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations so that everybody feels safer and our law enforcement officers feel, rather than being embattled, feel fully supported.”

“I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose, having the perfect brushstroke. It's about expression of oneself, the things around you, and the emotions. I think expression is the one word that I would use, whether it's for sorrow, tragedy, joy, or even the need to express and be heard.”

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Author:Charlie Albright

“The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.”

Inspirational Needs Tragedy Teenager Sickness Adolescence Teenage Fourteen

Book:Cress Delahanty

Source: Cress Delahanty

“To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.”

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Author:Luiz Bolognesi

“It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.”

“We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.”

“Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.”

Needs Action Students Tragedy Redemption Contradiction Starks

Author:Reuel Howe

“Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.”

Needs Humans May Lying Dies Existence Possibility Tragedy Fear Of Death Human Existence

Author:Norman Cousins

“Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.”

People Thinking Needs Kind America Achieve Example Movement Possibility Balance Protect Optimism Tragedy Environmental Preserves Immigrants Shelter Skepticism Finite Great Wisdom

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.”

Needs Use Home Can Do Drama Tragedy Envy Loyalty Downers

Author:Ben Kingsley

“I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?”

Needs Emotion Majors Tragedy South Complexes Handle Minors Chords Sophistication

Author:Joni Mitchell

“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”

Needs Enough Pleasure Blood Sadness Tragedy Filled Criminal Mind Majestic Feeling Sad

Author:Jean Racine

“If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

Ifs Needs Reason Joy Lying Faith Sides Tragedy Ambiguity Bearable

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.”

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Author:William P. Young

“When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace.”

Ifs Knows Needs Years Night Grace Tragedy Dear Dinner Neighborhood My Sister Organize Shocked Dear God Family Dinner Casseroles

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”

Inspirational Needs Humor Laughter Tragedy Rewards Humor Laughter

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”

Needs Art Gratitude Appreciate Tragedy Appreciation Thanks Thank You

Author:Kurt Cobain

“The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.”

“We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.”

Needs Feelings Age Wanted Three Left Powerful Modern Middle Greatness Tragedy Absolutes Saint Purity Most Powerful Heroism Craving Middle Ages Modern Life

Author:Anais Nin

“Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.”

People Needs Fighting Fronts Sitting Weak Tragedy Workers Aids Starving Sitting Quietly

Book:The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

“There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.”

Needs Reason Tragedy Lasting Temporary

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.”

Ifs World Needs Hard Play Lines Numbers Special Effects Stage Tragedy Ads Special Effects Farce

Author:Bill Watterson

“But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .”

Needs Humans Term Human Beings Focus Benefits Tragedy Short Term

Author:Dan Ariely

“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.”

Knows Needs Tragedy Platonic Platonic Love

Book:Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

“She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the questions. It's very hard if you are interested in ideas and all that, ideas and the philosophies of the past, it's very hard to find someone around here to really talk to. That's the tragedy of the thing really I mean, when you think about it. Certainly I can't find anyone around here to talk to anymore. And for a woman it's even harder you see. They can feel very trapped - because of the patriarchy. I do feel everyone needs to have these little chats now and then.”

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Author:Zadie Smith

“It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.”

Needs Humans Different Sometimes Helping Inspiring Tragedy Thoughtful Loving Life Thoughts On Life Sad But True

Author:Maya Angelou

“We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.”

“The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.”

“There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.”

Men Needs Children Culture Powerful Silence Break Violence Tragedy Awful Ongoing Violence Against Women Stop Violence Against Women

Author:Jackson Katz

“Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. ... When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.”

Needs Wells Has Beens Different Whole Moments Life Is Joy Deals Tragedy Hardship Indescribable Happiness And Love Happy Moments

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and it’s very beautiful. But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.”

Needs Rich Tragedy

Author:Charles Coburn

“We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated people movers, like those in downtown Miami, are moving people from rail stations to their final destinations. But a new concept, PRT, may help revolutionize urban transportation, providing a cost-effective way to get people from train stations to where they need to go.”

“We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.”

Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

“Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.”

Needs Giving Humans Art Made Pain Form Human Beings Greater Our Lives Seeing Tragedy Exposing Condescending

Author:Howard Barker

“That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.”

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Author:Rudy Vallee

“It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.”

Needs Real Matter Moments Law Suffering Next Steps Lessons Overcoming Difficulty Tragedy No Matter What Misfortunes Next Steps Steps Forward

Author:Emmet Fox

“A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.”

Source: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.”

Needs Helping Use Government Opportunity Situation Members Projects Advantage Tragedy Dollars Congress Pet Taxpayers Those In Need

Author:Chris Chocola

“Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.”

Needs Trying Humans Age Born Sorrow Horror Skills Fairs Harder Tragedy Rewards Parks Usual Tickets Absurdity Repetition Fence Commonplace Parody Monotonous

Book:Why Time Begins on Opening Day

Source: Why Time Begins on Opening Day

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