#tragedy

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#constant #emotional #exciting #falls #less

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented. ↗

— Julie Brown

#being funny #demented #face #figure #funny

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#invite #love #love is #marry #people

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#comedy #cut #die #fall #finger

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#expect #help #hurt #systems #tragedy

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attack #attacks #attempted #back #because

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#altogether #apart #axis #cannot #defeat

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

#believe #give #life #love #ready

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#connected #family #global #had #i

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#effort #situation #talent #tragedy #without