Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.
The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.
I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.
If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Tragedies happen, accidents happen.
Tragedy is the highest form of art.
When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort and council.
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.
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.
Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.