Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mel Brooks

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

Pierre Corneille

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

Paulo Coelho

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

Paulo Coelho

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

Pico Iyer

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Jim Rohn

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

Louise Hay

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

Leo Tolstoy

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Joyce Maynard

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

Josephine Hart

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

Phyllis Diller

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

Joyce Meyer

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Katharine Kerr

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

Karen Russell

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

Leona Lewis

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Julius Caesar

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Joyce Cary

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

John Piper

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

John Piper

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

Marvin J. Ashton

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

Nicholas Sparks

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

Nelson Mandela

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Olivia Thirlby

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Olivia Wilde

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

Mark Twain

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Patrick Ness

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Irvin D. Yalom

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

I. F. Stone

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.