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You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.
The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.
All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.
It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.
That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.
One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.
A lot of queer relationships on television and in films are met with extreme tragedy.
Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.
I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.