#Tragedy

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

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

"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."

"Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding."

"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"

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

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

"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."

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

"I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor."

"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."

"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."

"Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy."

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

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."

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

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

"They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing."

"I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them."

"A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope."