In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity. — Laura Bohannan Copy Share Image
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
Keep being yourself as well. Many times when life gets us down, all we desire for is some normalcy after tragedy. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
“Comedy was invented to make people forget, That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
I'm happy that I worked alone on 'Tragedy,' but it's obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here… — Lonnie Bunch Copy Share Image
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses… We agonize… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Peace is not just safety or lack of war, violence, conflict and contention. Peace comes from knowing that the Savior knows who… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this… — Claudia Llosa Copy Share Image
“We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned… — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
All of us have to deal with death at one time or another, but to have in one's heart a solid conviction… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
The importance of making sure that the sense of accountability when, in fact, law enforcement is involved in a deadly shooting is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In April I founded the Constitution Party. With the Social Democrats and all liberal powers we will combine against the Islamists. We… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“Sometimes tragedy can strike at the most inopportune time of our lives. How we react to tragedy defines us by underscoring our… — Conrad Brooks Copy Share Image
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
