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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

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

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

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

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.