A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

“History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.”

It is an immeasurable tragedy to spend a sizeable portion of one’s waking hours doing a job that does not excite you nor infuse you with a sense of purpose.

Especially when you’re faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that’s what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times.

In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.

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.

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. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.

The American triumph—in which the American tragedy has always been implicit—was to make black people despise themselves.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer’s life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

This isn’t a pizza, this is a mistake. This is an Italian tragedy.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it’s the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways–either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents

I am a masterpiece, you are a tragedy. Finish you like Mortal Kombat; fatality

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.