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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John F. Kennedy

Life

Courage

Tragedy

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Vernon Jordan

Tragedy

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

Jacky Ickx

Luck

Tragedy

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Comedy

Tragedy

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

Isabelle Huppert

Tragedy

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

Alan Hovhaness

Mind

Tragedy

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

Shannon Hoon

Tragedy

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.