“Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I realize now that tragedy spares no one; it just courts each of us differently.” — Gwendolyn M. Plano Copy Share Image
“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.” — Judith Ortiz Cofer Copy Share Image
Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Lady Margaret Sackville Copy Share Image
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch '21 Grams.' I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, "It was showed by… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe… — Garry McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To to remembered by a heart is the greatest honour - yet the greatest tragedy.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image