life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“He did not have anything on him except her thoughts, except the good times he had once shared and the bad times… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“To be captured as a trophy and than have our emotions neglected is tragic. We might as well be stuffed and mounted… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
“That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess.… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe,… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
There's something about the girls and the boys who just live for the moment and don't think a second beyond their needs… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“It's love that enslaves us...It is the play within the play, the stage on which the tragic drama of our human lives… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
It's more tragic when we miss something than just go through a pain. So, better not miss anything. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic. — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Anytime you hurt somebody else it's definitely just tragic...To ruin someone else's self-esteem or make someone feel bad about anything is never… — Kris Jenner Copy Share Image
“What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“Human life is fatally fragile and subject to forces beyond our power to manage. Life is tragic.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
There are people with physical disabilities that prevent them from having any hope - in some cases any actual hope and in… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
