It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina… — Saidiya Hartman Copy Share Image
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held… — William Robertson Nicoll Copy Share Image
Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain people and insist that they descend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'. — George Chuvalo Copy Share Image
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
You don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to rush to help those in need. — Robert Kraft Copy Share Image
“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.” — Helen Gardner Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me. — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
