Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy..

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear….

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world..

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our att….

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, th….

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me..

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after..

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder….

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are..

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man..

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look….

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is li….

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen..

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy..

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy h….

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one..

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game..

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't..

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same..

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories..