Quotes About Tragic Plays

#1. He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities. Courageous,

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. All fine films, novels, and plays, through all shades of the comic and the tragic, entertain when they give the audience a fresh model of life empowered with an affective meaning.

Robert McKee

#3. I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.

Lauren Groff

#4. I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

Lee Hall

#5. What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way each individual experiences the world?

David Mazzucchelli

#6. Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. When does relaxing turn into living? How can you call it relaxing when that is all you are doing?

S.A. Tawks

#8. The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

Mason Cooley

#9. You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#10. Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.

Joan Rivers

#11. Christ," he muttered, rubbing the back of his neck. "The first time I traveled, I attacked an automobile with an umbrella and nearly pissed myself in terror. So when I say you are taking this well, I hope you'll believe me.

Alexandra Bracken

#12. Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.

Billy Graham

#13. Because the things you have, and the neighborhood you live in, doesn't have anything to do with what kind of human being you are.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#14. There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

Lisa Gerrard

#15. Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert

#16. Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

Charlton Heston

#17. If I assume the 'truth' to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my 'truth.' And the 'truth' of the matter is, when I do this I've chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

Nate Silver

#19. We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a lot of women go wrong. They should try to whack it a few times and see what happens.

Helen Alfredsson

#20. But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!

Eugene Ionesco