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“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.”
Vaclav Havel
“The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin
“The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.”
D.H. Lawrence
“To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.”
Harry Levin
“The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.”
William Barclay
“One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin
“There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.”
Rufus Wainwright
