To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“I think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father, sister or brother, because you and… — Pamela Barrett Copy Share Image
“It is a great tragedy that an oasis does not turn out to be true! It is equally a great tragedy that… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“He wanted to meet her for the first time, over and over...He told himself the story that this was the great tragedy… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment… Hungry women are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer.… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one. — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
“Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.” — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image