Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain people and insist that they descend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift. — Suzanne Giesemann Copy Share Image
If we didn't desensitize ourselves in some way, every day would feel like its own tragedy. — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
“The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.” — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.” — Lisa Papademetriou Copy Share Image
Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“But life is made of happiness and tragedy in equal proportions, and we will never change that.” — Jennifer Worth 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
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.” — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
With the gift of the Holy Ghost comes the ability to develop a powerfully sensitive capacity to make the right choices. Cultivate… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
New York' is based on part of the political canvas of 9/11, but it speaks of prejudices after the great human tragedy.… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States… In these terrible circumstances, all… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such… — Darrell Scott Copy Share Image
“LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid to live, am I?--and even… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very… — Kevin Williams Copy Share Image
“the essence of tragedy is time, or rather the lack of it. There is no problem in any Greek tragedy that could… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama, to his credit, has given - issued personal pardons in deserving cases. But he should go far beyond. He… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
A lot of queer relationships on television and in films are met with extreme tragedy. — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
“His thoughts are unfathomable & her emotions are all over the place. Oh! The tragedy of Love.” — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on? — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
