Top 48 Tragedy Plus Time Quotes
#2. If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy." ~ Jon Stewart
Chris Smith
#5. A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
Brian Regan
#6. Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Lenny Bruce
#7. Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
Mike Birbiglia
#8. The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.
Javier Camara
#10. I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be glamorous and her grief could be undone by a sunnier future. I thought we could pinpoint dramatic events on a time line and call it a life.
But I was wrong.
Nina LaCour
#11. The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline and a childlike tragedy. The first time I was on a stage, it wasn't even a music concert. It was a magic show. That being said, the life I lead now isn't what you would call 'destiny'.
Corey Taylor
#12. That's the thing you don't know about children unless you have them - bath time, Lego, and fish fingers don't allow you to dwell on tragedy for too long.
Jojo Moyes
#13. Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.
Edgar Allan Poe
#14. Once land gets in a state, once it begins to deteriorate, it is hard to reverse the process. Land falls sick just like people - that's the whole tragedy of our time.
Brian W. Aldiss
#15. She's really gone, then...Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly...
Suzanne Collins
#16. I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.
Turcois Ominek
#17. Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.
Steve Farrar
#18. With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
Rosanne Cash
#19. The Civil War was the climax of a tragedy that was preordained from the time of the Revolution. Only with the elimination of slavery could this nation that Jefferson had called "the world's best hope" for democracy even begin to fulfill its great promise.
Gordon S. Wood
#20. Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we'll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge.
Terri Blackstock
#21. You've faced horrors in these past weeks ... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
Tasha Alexander
#23. The tragedy of life is when you do not know what to do with time
Sunday Adelaja
#24. And I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by nature suited for.
Charlotte Rogan
#25. Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
Artie Lange
#26. The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.
Joseph J. Romm
#27. The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
John Walsh
#28. When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx
xxx
The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia ...
James K. Morrow
#30. We visited the unlucky in the hospital and went to funerals, always remarking on the tragedy. But every time we stepped too close to it, we saw our own demises. We went with the full knowledge that we would one day die as well.
Donna Augustine
#31. I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.
Godfrey Reggio
#32. All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
Simone Weil
#33. Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl Marx
#34. Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
Alex Lifeson
#35. Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.
Rebecca Solnit
#36. That you always need to look closer at people's lives. You can't just assume that just because they have beauty and wealth that they aren't touched by tragedy, heartbreak, cheating, and everything else that plagues us mere mortals. They put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us.
Annie Jocoby
#37. I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.
Nikki Rowe
#38. An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It's what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it - potentially - a tragic situation.
You have to have been exposed to this, at least once, to understand it.
Jacques Yonnet
#39. You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.
Taylor Swift
#40. We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.
Susan Sontag
#41. Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously.
Rudy Giuliani
#42. It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.
H.L. Mencken
#43. We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.
Barack Obama
#44. It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Angela Carter
#45. Insensitive people are only upset when they actually see the blood, but actually by the time that the blood has been shed the tragedy has already completed.
Yukio Mishima
#46. There's a reason there are seven stages of grief. It takes time for the mind to process tragedy. Grief, true grief, needs the cushion of denial and anger and blame to cope.
Kaitlin Bevis
#47. Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
Pat Conroy
#48. We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.
Ace Antonio Hall
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