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Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

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

By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even a dogma, which is today called, the "tragedy of the commons" which holds that if things are held in common they are going to be destroyed. If they're privatized, like you give them to Bechtel or Monsanto or ExxonMobil, then they'll be preserved because that's the capitalist's religion.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

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

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

Did you see, after this horrific tragedy in Boston, that [Barack] Obama cannot utter the word 'terrorist.' It's not politically correct. He even called the Fort Hood murderer 'workplace violence.' Because it's politically incorrect to talk about 'jihad,' or to talk about 'terrorist,' or to talk about 'the war on terror.' He won't say those words, because they're politically incorrect.

Especially when you're faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that's what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Even in tragedy, God through His Word offers hope for those who seek and believe. It starts with the promise of a better tomorrow, of life everlasting, of eternal peace. It's called faith, and it offers hope where none existed.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

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

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand by the American people. We express our friendship and solidarity in this tragedy.

Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

Get thee behind me, tragedy.