I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[...] because in that faggot town only a man like him could prevent the tragedy.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window… — Arthur F. Burns Copy Share Image
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I've thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important. I also believe that… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool… — Megan Karasch Copy Share Image
One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy. — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is not born in the destiny of a bad man, but rather destiny born into a tragic world.” — J.E. Plemons Copy Share Image
“For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image