To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
In a tragedy, nothing is in our power, nothing is our own.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time.
The secret of tragedy is that it is meant to be a lesson to us, a warning against arrogance.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
In the tragic situation, one does not choose his problems; rather, he stands where the finger of fate points.
Every tragedy contains a lesson in wisdom.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
There is no tragedy in missing a target. The tragedy lies in never trying.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.