| Author |
Quotes |
| Aldous Huxley | We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. |
| Arnold Beisser | Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective. |
| Carol Burnett | Comedy is tragedy - plus time |
| Dorothy Parker | It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes. |
| Gilda Radner | While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness |
| Heywood C Broun | The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. |
| Horace Walpole | The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. |
| Jonas Salk | The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. |
| Joyce Cary | It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything. |
| O Anna Niemus | Union Carbide desecrated India with killer insecticides brought to Bhopal They violated Hinduism All bugs are sacred to Ahimsa's Gopal *** Ahimsa nonviolence Gopal.. name for Krishna as protector of cows and all beings. |
| Robert F Kennedy | Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. |
| William D Howells | What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. |
| William D Montapert | There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time. |
| George Bernard Shaw | There are two tragedies in life, one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it. |
| Oscar Wilde | It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. |
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