The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. |
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. |
Comedy is tragedy - plus time. |
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. |
The smallest coffins are the heaviest. |
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. |
Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day. |
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .` |
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. |
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. |