One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world. — Anonymous 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
“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!” — Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Biggest tragedy of life is when God wants us to glorify Him for our own sakes, but we choose to glorify self… — indonesia123 Copy Share Image
“Comedies are fit for common wits: But to present a kingly troop withal, Give me a stately-written tragedy; Tragadia cothurnata , fitting… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
“When you’re faced with tragedy,18 you usually find that you’re no longer surrounded by people—you’re surrounded by platitudes.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions -… — Mark Rothko 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
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of that terrible tragedy of the 20th century, namely World War II, are… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn't know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess.… — Rose Wynters Copy Share Image
We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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
“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
Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas… — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom Copy Share Image
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.-- Mark Twain — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried. — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“After a brief moment of splendour, the whole enterprise too a sad turn.” — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of contemporary philosophy is that it has been castrated.” — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy. — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image