1. Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Bernard Malamud

2. And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now
Anonymous

3. The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun

4. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Einstein

5. The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Shirley Hazzard

6. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Richard Evens

7. When tragedy and loss happens, God will bring you through. He is close to the brokenhearted
Anonymous

8. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

9. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin

10. The sense of tragedy – according to Aristotle – comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist’s weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I’m getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. … [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
Haruki Murakami

11. It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
Walter Kane

12. The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such a mingling.
Karen Harper

13. Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy for those who think.
Jean de la Bruyere

14. Thank you for the tragedy, I need it for my art.
Kurt Cobain

15. In Greek tragedy, you can't go down crying.
John Iorio

16. Allow tragedy to fortify your strength; refuse to let it weaken you
Anonymous

17. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

18. There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be used as a source of strength.
Dalai Lama XIV

19. Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La Bruyere

20. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer

21.The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tom Stoppard

22. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

23. The great tragedy in life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham

24. Some people just born with tragedy in their blood
Anonymous

25. When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that’s what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they’re not alone.
Anonymous

26. The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.
Norman Cousins

27. Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose. The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Robert Brault

28. Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

29. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy

30. Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose.
Robert Brault

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31. One tragedy here, one tragedy there, … We go through different acts, but we all go through the same pain, the same suffering, the same recovery.
Van Orden

32. Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway

33. In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Wislawa Szymborska

34. The basis of tragedy is man’s helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man’s helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell

35. If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.
Anonymous

36. The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.
Phillip K. Dick

37. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
Anonymous

38. The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays

39. The tragedy of life is not how much you suffer, but how much you fail to enjoy.
Myriad Moods

40. A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.
James Madison

41. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx

42. In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.
Dean Koontz

43. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde

44. Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage.
Anonymous

45. There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.
Rex D. Pinegar

46. Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
Jeannette Walls

47. The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite
Rabindranath Tagore

48. Our way–the Western Way–has always been a “work in progress.” Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are never definitively settled, but must be addressed again and again as personal and public worlds shift and change. We hold our morals to be absolutes, but the context of our actions and decisions is forever changing. We are not relativists because we seek to re-evaluate again and again our most crucial moral positions.
Anne Rice

49. It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Benjamin Elijah Mays

50. The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking
Anonymous

51. Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been
Anonymous

52. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde

53. The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

54. The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

55. Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.
J M Reinoso

56. Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.
Harry Allen Overstreet

57. Marguerite Blessington – love in france is a comedy; in england a tragedy; in italy an opera seria; and in germany a melodrama.
Marguerite Blessington

58. The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.
Myles Munroe

59. In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
Coyle Bradle

60. Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.
Tibetian Proverb

61. Life is tragedy is that we get old too.
Anonymous

62. Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Tom Cochrane

63. Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Jean De La Bruyere