I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I haven't had too many tragedies in my family where there has been a loss or even an accident. I've been lucky… — Brooks Koepka Copy Share Image
“Life flows swiftly by and sometimes through tragedies, but it keeps flowing on.” — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular. — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
“Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.” — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Tragedies such as Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' are so powerful because there's an underlying assumption that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“You can look at my life and say there’ve been some real tragedies, and there have been. But there’ve also been some… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me.… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“we need tragedies. They teach us. We learn from them. Without tragedies, our hearts do not commit to avoid future ones. Without… — Chad Morris Copy Share Image
“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
I am sick and tired of all the hurt and drama that goes on at school, at home and on the internet.… — Tiana Govan Copy Share Image
