Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can’t sit back and say, ‘Oh why me.’ Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else? – Eric Davis
But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays. – Mark Rylance
I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, ‘This isn’t fair.’ I said, ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Everybody has their issues. It’s how you handle your issues that distinguishes you. – Maria Shriver
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. – Nicholas Sparks
I love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific. – Jeff Bridges
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities. – James Baldwin
I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we’re fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin. – Lake Bell
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones. – Lydia Leonard
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy. – Jess Walter
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy. – John Caudwell
Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It’s exciting! Tragedy! Fodder for a cable-news frenzy. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis. – Jo Cox
Thriller novelists get asked – berated, sometimes – about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment. – M. J. Rose
I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I’m sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I’d have to accept that it happened. – Jason Ritter
This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again. – Kerry King
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also. – Michael Leunig
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
We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be. – Martin O’Malley
A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy. – Jeff Fortenberry
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained. – John Banville