Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints. — PLO Lumumba Copy Share Image
“The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory… — Matt Hammitt Copy Share Image
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to… — Sunday Adelaja 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
When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.” — John Webster Copy Share Image
“This was not a love story that ended in tragedy. This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.” — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
“It’s just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there and that you meant it but I… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
“Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be." Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The… — Isaac Solomon Copy Share Image
God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go… — Jay Rayner Copy Share Image
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are three sayings I live by, and one of them is 'The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man… — Ken Hendricks Copy Share Image
I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
“To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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