Tragedy Quotes

While we have the gift of life, it
seems to me the only tragedy
is to allow part of us to die -- whether
it is our spirit, our creativity
or our glorious uniqueness
?Gilda Radner

We participate in tragedy.
At comedy we only look.
?Aldous Huxley

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

Comedy is tragedy - plus time
?Carol Burnett

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

It is the tragedy of the world that no
one knows what he doesn't know -
and the less a man knows, the more
sure he is that he knows everything.
?Joyce Cary

There are no tragedies, just
facts not recognized in time.
?William D. Montapert

The worst tragedy that could have
befallen me was my success. I knew
right away that I was through -
cast out.
?Jonas Salk

It's not the tragedies that
kill us, it's the messes.
?Dorothy Parker

It often happens that the real tragedies
of life occur in such an inartistic manner
that they hurt us by their crude violence,
their absolute incoherence, their absurd want
of meaning, their entire lack of style.
?Oscar Wilde

Tragedy and comedy are but two
aspects of what is real, and whether
we see the tragic or the humorous
is a matter of perspective.
?Arnold Beisser