The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them. — Katharine Susannah Prichard Copy Share Image
We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
'Big Time Rush' was a great show, and I had some great experiences. It allowed me to become more of a comedic… — Ciara Bravo Copy Share Image
Public crowdfunding still suffers from a tragedy of the commons problem. Everyone will want the benefit of the crowdfunded efforts but is… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
“It’s funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it… — Marianne Macdonald Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. — Luiz Bolognesi Copy Share Image
From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin. — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think if you understand your role, comedy won't create any tragedy. — Sanjeeda Sheikh Copy Share Image
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
