We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent..

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of ….

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me..

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy bein….

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill..

The tragedy of life is that people do not change..

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending..

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness..

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain..

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is sal….

We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with ….

There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in….

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind..

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama..

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again..

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his come….

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic..

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 barel….

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted..

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I do….