“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.” — Helen Gardner Copy Share Image
I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Jacob was to travel second class. This alone was inexpressibly tragic.” — Cora Sandel Copy Share Image
And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It is both tragic and strange that people do not value every breath, every smile and every act of love. Life is… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and… — Beverly Donofrio Copy Share Image
But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing… — Brett Favre Copy Share Image
He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
I don't think the possibility for beauty can be foreclosed, because beauty can take so many forms. There is beauty that arises… — Sze Tsung Leong Copy Share Image
A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
“The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
