#Tragedy

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."

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

"Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?"

"I can't go on, I'll go on."

"When your family dies, that’s a bummer, but that’s life. When my family dies, it’s a tragedy and the world is unbalanced and biased."

"It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen."

"My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way."

"In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love."

"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn."

"I'll sleep forever and meet you in my dreams; it'll hurt less anyway. But the pain of losing you was worth the pleasure of having you, and I rest in bed knowing you'll know for the rest of your life what you are missing.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"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."

"I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn't burned down, you don't have cancer, and your daughter hasn't been raped or murdered. The bad news is that I ran over your dog. And your son. And his wife. But not before I ran out of gas to achieve all of that."

"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive."

"Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable."

"If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly."

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."

"Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?"

"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."