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Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.
A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Nobody knows the tragedy of a small island divided against itself better than a Cypriot.
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.
People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.
Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.
I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.
After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.
I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.
If we didn't desensitize ourselves in some way, every day would feel like its own tragedy.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.
A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.