One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“Tragedy did that—brought people together in ways you could never force.” — Nancy Naigle Copy Share Image
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated. — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back. I just wanna know what will make me… — Ade Santi Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, cancer - not that funny of a thing. When you hear about it, you don't go, 'Oh, hilarious!'... But within… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“Many things led to this day, for all of us. A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow,… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's… That somebody else's tragedy… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The biggest tragedy in life is not letting someone know how you feel about them before it's too last...Give them roses while… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“There has to be some way this won’t end in tragedy. Why can’t Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after? It’s as… — Kitty Thomas Copy Share Image
“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel.… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
The Kennedys have always represented a certain royal quality, Camelot, and they represent a great deal of integrity and strength and perseverance;… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina… — Saidiya Hartman Copy Share Image
I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
“it didn’t matter who you were or what you’d accomplished in life; none of that mattered when tragedy struck. You had no… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer (whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones.… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
“You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never find out what it is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
