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Is it a greater tragedy to achieve all one's desires or to lose them all? — Mark T. Barnes

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher. — Harlan Coben

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary. — Willard Scott

That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything. — Charles Coburn

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics. — Joseph Stalin

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy. — Christopher Paul Curtis

I wouldn't overall say that The Diagnosis it's a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy. — Alan Lightman

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us. — P.D. James

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes. — Nicholas Jarecki

If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, he's mine or I am his. — William Shakespeare

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters. — Joanna Trollope

If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy. — Woody Allen

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? — Arthur Miller

It's easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy. — Jonathan Maberry

Life's Tragedy
Making a living and making a life
are at odds. — Beryl Dov

Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up. — Donald Trump

She's really gone, then...Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly... — Suzanne Collins

It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures. — Bryant McGill

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now. — Taylor Swift

He can only bear tragedy if it's abstract. — Lauren Groff

The tragedy of war is that it uses mas's best to do man's worst. — H. E. Fosdick

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star. — Nick Cave

That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss. — Sarah Rayner

News is just news until it happens to you. Then it's tragedy. — J. Lincoln Fenn

There is something more dangerous than the death of one's body. It is "the undiscovered self"; being alive without knowing why. — Israelmore Ayivor

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad. — Rafe Esquith

But was the woman's death the tragedy, or her life? — Marissa Meyer

Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that's how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success. — C. Robert Cargill

If our love's tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity? — Terry Goodkind

For wolves and pigs and bears, thinking that they're human is a tragedy. For a cat, it's an experience. — Terry Pratchett

There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future. — Jim Norton

It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved. — J.S.B. Morse

She's Verglas's greatest tragedy and last hope: the Princess Rakel. — K.M. Shea

I DIDN'T KNOW THE POOR MAN laid out in his birthday suit on Claire's table, only that his death might have been related to the Del Norte tragedy. — James Patterson

Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! — Napoleon Hill

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. — Tony Snow

When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy. — Danielle Steel

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential — Ed Palubinskas

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help. — Harold S. Kushner

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. — William Shakespeare

How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Lady Macbeth — William Shakespeare

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy. — Nathan Fillion

And I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by nature suited for. — Charlotte Rogan

Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life. — Lindsey Davis

Love, like life, isn't a tragedy or a fairy tale - it's both. — Jeannine Allison

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. — Jean Racine

All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy.
Children of Ankh series — Kim Cormack

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy. — Mark Twain

One man's greed is another man's tragedy. — B.B. Reid

This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from. — Henry Mosquera

Everything is 'just a story'. Tragedy, comedy, end of the world, what ever it's just a story. What matters is making sure it's heard. — Mira Grant

I have brought you a hero's fate, and a hero's fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic. — Rick Riordan

It's human; we all put self interest first. — Euripides

He's sleeping, Mr. Kim." Sehun muttered. "Don't disturb him. — FishMeAnEXo

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message. — Dan Brown

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this. — Rafael Palmeiro

If she's gonna love again, it won't be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers. — Lindsay Detwiler

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. — Robert Breault

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The greatest tragedy of mankind," Dalio says, "comes from the inability of people to have thoughtful disagreement to find out what's true." Through — Adam M. Grant

It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind. — Marcel Proust

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else. — Marty Rubin

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. — Jeff Bridges

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. — Vivien Leigh

I understand well the peculiar guilt of tragedy's survivors. — Kate Morton

When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic. — Joseph Stalin

I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life. — Jonathan Lethem

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game. — Bobby Fischer

It isn't. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. These two elements always go together. — Nicholas Sparks

The Gold Rush(1925) affirmed Charlie Chaplin's belief that tragedy and comedy are never far apart. — Steven Jay Schneider

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

A gripper of a read ... Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death. — Bruce Barcott

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

Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. — Werner Herzog

Wine is like poetry. If it's good wine. If it's not, then it's a tragedy. — Renee Carlino

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The humans who love us never last long. Scions are tragedy magnets. It's safer for them if we leave before the trouble starts." ~ Daphne — Josephine Angelini

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance. — Winifred Holtby

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play. — Jane Austen

We can easily forgive a child for being afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~Plato~ — S.S. Segran

Sad day, my loves, a proper tragedy. But when the milk's gone bad you might as well look forward to cheese, hmm? — Scott Lynch

It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference. — Cristina Garcia

Suicide is not a blot on anyone's name; it is a tragedy — Kay Redfield Jamison

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

That's the thing about exes - for eternity you feel like rivals in a kind of happiness contest, and losing would be the epitome of tragedy. — Daria Snadowsky

It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy? — Agatha Christie

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy. — Eric Drooker

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people. — Mark Shields

The comedy of the wicked,
Is the tragedy of the saint;
But the saint's comedy,
Is the wicked's remedy. — Stephan Attia

But we survived, didn't we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it's a tragedy. — Garth Nix

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is. — Ellen Page

That's what sacrifice is - beauty and tragedy. It's pain and suffering for something or someone you love. And — M. Leighton

The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own. — David Whyte