Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
“I believe that life is full of tragedy. Some lives more than others. But I also believe that comfort can be found… — Eliza Maxwell Copy Share Image
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning. — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
“The best thing you can say to someone going through a tragic loss is not that "It's going to be alright" It… — JohnA Passaro Copy Share Image
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
'There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted all the voyage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that… — K.L. Toth Copy Share Image
“You thought I was answering "As you wish" but that's only because you were hearing wrong. "I love you" was what it… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn't… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
“Tragedy seems to bring out all varieties of unexpected qualities in people. It was as if some folks got dunked in plastic,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Huge events in life inform you in so many ways that you know about and many other ways that you cannot even… — Jim James Copy Share Image
The evidence for indicting immunisations for SIDS is circumstantial, but compelling. However, the keepers of the keys to medical-research funds are not… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
“Deana Carter sings about it. Lady Antebellum sings about it. Eric Church. Gosh, not just country artists. Katy Perry. Everybody has a… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing American audiences like more than a tragedy with a happy ending.” — Marcus Berkmann Copy Share Image
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential — Ed Palubinskas Copy Share Image
