The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons.… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them. — Katharine Susannah Prichard Copy Share Image
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
