I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.
The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.
I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.
I like doing everything - theater and film, radio and TV, comedy and tragedy. I love it all. And I've never really planned anything - I've always looked at my job in a rather simplistic way. It's like being a plumber. One day you might be fixing an early 20th century showerhead that requires real detailed work. The other day you might just be clearing a sewer. Both jobs are very different, but all the tools come out of the same box. That's the way I look at acting.
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it
Get thee behind me, tragedy.
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.
Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane