You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has… — Margaret Rutherford Copy Share Image
“The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.” — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“I'd never hated myself more than at that moment. But it was for the best, because a love between us would only… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Marshall wished he knew what to call her, wished he could memorialize her somehow. There was dignity in eulogies, in little ribbons… — Aaron Dries Copy Share Image
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
“Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.” — Abraham Harold Maslow Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“For a moment, Blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. “I would rather you hate me… — Tanya kaley Copy Share Image
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because,… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune… — Mary Hart Copy Share Image
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations. — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.” — Lacie Baskerville Pandora Hearts Copy Share Image
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is just comedy that hasn’t come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others. — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
