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It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.
Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously.
I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.
The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.
One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.
Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?
The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.