Tragedy proverbs

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◆ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

- Horace Walpole99

◆ For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.

- Sarah Ockler99

◆ A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

- Stephen King99

◆ A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

- Joseph Stalin99

◆ We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

- Stephen Jay Gould99

◆ Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

- Mel Brooks99

◆ I can't go on, I'll go on.

- Samuel Beckett99

◆ Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

- W.B. Yeats99

◆ I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

- W. Somerset Maugham99

◆ Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

- Jeannette Walls99

◆ Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

- Jean Racine99

◆ Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

- Robyn Schneider99

◆ Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

- Oscar Wilde99