Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end — Leon Gambetta Copy Share Image
There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life... Life should be celebrated! — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes. — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss.… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What a journey...what a day...what madness, so much worse than tragic! What to do except dance, dance, only dance...” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world. — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“You aren’t how I imagined my assassin to be. You’re too beautiful and tragic.” — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
Some people are right on the edge. Don't be the one who pushes them over . — Airyell Speaks Copy Share Image
If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Linear time has one claim to grandeur: it is the tragic aspect of Time” — Alan McGlashan Copy Share Image
There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five. — William Holden Copy Share Image
“...but destiny had a number of tricks up her sleeve, didn't she, both joyful and tragic?” — Heather Barbieri Copy Share Image
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