“[...] I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life [...]” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us. — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally. — Bob Parr Copy Share Image
Venezuelans live on 3 dollars a month. That's a tragedy. That is impossible to survive under these conditions. — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die.… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse.… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most people don't die young, at least not here in America. Tragedy is unavoidable, but in this country, it doesn't usually come… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer… — Walter Prescott Webb Copy Share Image
For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to predict that there will be conflict, but you place yourself in a maelstrom when you offer a view… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter. — Del Close Copy Share Image
I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance? — John Updike Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations. — Bruce Grobbelaar Copy Share Image
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“No matter how difficult the trail … we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life’s most grievous… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
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