Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible. — Jim McKay Copy Share Image
“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.” — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why — Simon T. Bailey Copy Share Image
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. — Maxwell Anderson Copy Share Image
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness. — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and… — Andrea Yates Copy Share Image
The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent… — Victor Del Arbol Copy Share Image
Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world. We in Iraq… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I don't think I could ever reach the giddy heights of the inspired comedy and tragedy that's happening now in Washington. I… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“How does the world even keep going with so much pain and tragedy everywhere?” — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
I think it's in a way my tragedy that people don't see me for the serious roles I have played. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image