Quotes About Tragic Situations

#1. I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.

Kathryn Lasky

#2. People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

Sally Hawkins

#3. Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

Sarah Polley

#4. I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

James Nachtwey

#5. Last, but not least
in fact, this is most important
you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.

Satyajit Ray

#6. What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.

Casey Wilson

#7. Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Bryant H. McGill

#8. Every couple years, you know, these great things drop in my lap. It's been fantastic.

John Stamos

#9. Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

Sandy Skoglund

#10. Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?

R.A. Salvatore

#11. I think noogies can be effective if done at the right time and place.

Drew Chadwick

#12. Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life
a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?

George Eliot

#13. The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

Jennifer Gilmore