Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“God knows whatever comes your way, in any given circumstance.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of being; we believe all things but doubt the truth.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late. — William Mather Lewis Copy Share Image
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding.… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
“Your whole picture of the world broke," he said, "and you felt like you had gone mad." "Yes." "And I didn't even… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad. — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
“The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“She wanted to touch him, to throw her arms around him — but something held her back. Maybe it was the fear… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. — Jacky Ickx Copy Share Image
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
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