Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.
Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.