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“The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.”

Humans Born Differences Animal Comedy Conditions Creatures Ambition Tragedy Strive Intuition Frustration Instability Eccentricity Human Love Animal Life Tragedy And Comedy Oddness

Author:Christopher Fry

“Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.”

Should Humans Law Human Beings Conditions Subjects Tragedy Salvation

Book:Winter's Tales

Source: Winter's Tales

“The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.”

Humans War Community Conditions Tragedy Human Condition Inhumanity

Book:The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

Source: The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

“Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror of another's story, we can discover our tragedy and our comedy-and therefore our very human-ness, the ambiguity and incongruity, that lie at the core of the human condition.”

Source: The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning

“What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.”

People World Humans Problem Seems Political Left Wise Conditions Tragedy Dues Noble Human Condition Disturbing

Book:Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays

Source: Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays

“I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.”

Thinking Children Long Feelings Grows Growing Up Conditions Grew Gay Grew Up Tragedy Meaningful Leaving Me Having Children Long Relationship

Author:Andrew Solomon