#tragedy

You his brother?' 'Yes, damn it!' I burst out. "And all I want is to get my hands on whoever did this to him!' 'Funny,' said a dick dryly, 'but so do we.' I didn't like him much after that. Sarcasm is out of place when a man has just been brought face to face with personal tragedy. ("Walls That Hear You") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#tragedy #funny

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#tragedy #love

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

— Mel Brooks

#humor #tragedy #humor

I can't go on, I'll go on. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#drama #existentialism #fiction #humor #nihilism

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. ↗

— Steven Herrick

#inside #outside #precise #quetly #tearing-yourself-to-shreds

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences. ↗

— David Gemmell

#dramatist-quotes #inspirational-quotes #tragedy #inspirational

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#delightful #i #merely #out #simply

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd. ↗

— Alex Cox

#hope #play #spanish #thomas #tragedy

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#must #realistic #subject #tragedy