Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“The value of every life is based on the tragedy it leaves behind with some person.” — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a sea You will only drown, If you think you can swim There are things that devours me,… — J. Limbu Copy Share Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We would never have met," he explained, voice dropping to a husky note. "I would have gone about my life and not… — Andrea K. Höst Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It is axiomatic that one death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic.” — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies... — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
