#Tragedy

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."

"One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family.” She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. “You still have a family,” she whispers."

"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."

"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."