For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“She laid in the rubble of the vengeant storm that passed by. They found nothing on her breathing body, except the stains… — Priyansha Vashi Copy Share Image
“The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure… — Bobby Ghosh Copy Share Image
The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith. — Robert Byron Copy Share Image
“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.” — Helen Klein Ross Copy Share Image
“It isn't. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. These two elements always go together.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over… — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.” — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to… — Horace Copy Share Image
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
