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• Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it… the basest of all things is to be afraid.

  William Faulkner

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Tragedy, Afraid

• My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Topics in History

  Tags in Hurricane, Tragedy, Families

• I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

  Emma Bonino

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Psychological, Tragedy

• Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can’t sit back and say, ‘Oh why me.’ Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

  Eric Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cancer, Tragedy

• Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  Abba Eban

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rejection, Tragedy

• Comedy is tragedy plus time.

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comedy, Tragedy

• The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Topics in History

  Tags in Tragedy

• The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

  Aaron Allston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tragedy, Comedy, Happening
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  Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

  Sholem Aleichem

  Topics in Dream, Life, Wise

  Tags in Comedy, Tragedy, Fool

• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn’t have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That’s the tragedy of this.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tragedy, Happened
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  Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

  Robert Half

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Hard, Tragedy, Talent
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  The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Tragedy

• Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Tragedy, Live

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Tragedy, Standing

• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

  Victor Garber

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tragedy, Shoulder

• What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

  George P. Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Period, Tragedy, Tragic

• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Head, Tragedy

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Business, Politics

  Tags in Stands, September, Tragedy

• There’s more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Comedy, Tragedy

• 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.

  Vaclav Havel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Less, Tragedy