To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent. — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“I wonder if they talk about my ending as a tragedy. If the words would have and should have clung their talons… — Mackie Burt Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.” — Edward Morris Copy Share Image
“I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall? — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change.… — Chris Stein Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going… — Diyar Harraz Copy Share Image
The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next.… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that… — Jurgen Graf Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
There is no question that if one were to ask whether we Americans are moving towards more liberty or more government control… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season… — Jonny Gomes Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is… — Wolfgang Laib Copy Share Image
At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable,… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. — Pattiann Rogers 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
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Usually when tragedy is present, a great art movement is right behind it. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
