I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

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

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope that foul deceitful thing has no part in it.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

History repeats itself first as tragedy second as farce.

We therefore here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy and we like them will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.