There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.