I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's always time to tell a story like 'Candyman.' Which is the big tragedy about the tale in the first place. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over. Those two elements always go together.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
“As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a… — Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Copy Share Image
I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences,… — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor… — Chogyam Trungpa 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
I've had tragedy in my life, and it doesn't stop comedy, so I think it's important to do both. Particularly in a… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
“As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
Kim Kardashian is a kind of archetype. But she owns her beauty and is tremendously successful. There's no tragedy, there's no drug… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Each year, members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, Parliamentarians and others commemorate the Holodomor at gatherings across the country. In doing so, we… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image