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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.

I have been to Kargil, and I have seen the tragedy that both the Indians and the Pakistanis faced.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.

If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

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