The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde
Many younger elite Sri Lankans,especially young Tamils, have capitalised on foreign university credentials and their parents' dwindling wealth to escape from the daily stress and tragedy of life on the island.
John Richardson
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William Feather
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck
Well, the tragedy is over. The failure is complete. I turn my head and go away. I took my share in this fight for the impossible.
Albert Camus
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays
Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D.H. Lawrence
Golf is twenty percent mechanics and technique. The other eighty percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness, and conversation
Grantland Rice
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau