The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the tragedy is when a man is afraid of the light.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.