Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
That's the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician. — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
“There’s exactly one difference between an adventure and a tragedy: death.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for… — Reuel Howe Copy Share Image
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable,… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Ugliness and tragedy are stories that write themselves, happiness and beauty on the other hand may need a little inspiration and encouragement… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“This tragedy demonstrates better than any classroom lesson that leaders can never let their emotions get the better of them. Cool heads… — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
“She stands at the hairpin turn on Night Road. On either side of her, giant evergreens grow clustered together, rising high into… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Confidence don't mean jack shit in the real world, sis," she once said. I feel myself finding the courage to trust those… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that… — Jurgen Graf Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy. — Timberlake Wertenbaker Copy Share Image
“A moment is never long enough to account for tragedy when you are in it.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent. — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
