“The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.” — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.” — Lisa Papademetriou Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on? — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“People process death and tragedy differently. In my experience, there’s no right or wrong way.” — Mark Pryor Copy Share Image
The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences. — Shin Kyung-sook Copy Share Image
“After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
People always think of the tragedy of going from being non-disabled to disabled. And no one really talks about it going the… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next.… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such… — Darrell Scott Copy Share Image
“LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid to live, am I?--and even… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very… — Kevin Williams Copy Share Image
“the essence of tragedy is time, or rather the lack of it. There is no problem in any Greek tragedy that could… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama, to his credit, has given - issued personal pardons in deserving cases. But he should go far beyond. He… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
