“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.” — Helen Gardner 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
I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“It’s tragic when we do not recognize just how present God is in our lives.” — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much… — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
“I have brought you a hero’s fate, and a hero’s fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged… — Walther Funk Copy Share Image
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet'… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
“If not so tragic, it would be laughable. Both sides os blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they… — Brom Copy Share Image
No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's… — Mariko Tamaki Copy Share Image
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Until the moment of that dismissal with its reason given, he had received out of anywhere—or was it out of nowhere in… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden. — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
It is really tragic, character of this man's ideas and both are poised to fall — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
