Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy. — Max Mayfield Copy Share Image
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few. — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
Happiness is best achieved when you have gone through tragedy and sorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness. — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.” — Judith Ortiz Cofer Copy Share Image
Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Lady Margaret Sackville Copy Share Image
Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the… — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss… — Kevin Nash Copy Share Image
“How could it be? For weeks he'd run himself ragged, his only goal to keep her safe until the moment when he… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think that everything looks a little scarier at night, when the sun goes down. And I know I kind of want… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we… — Hyon Gyon 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
“I watched 60 Minutes...and they showed this woman, she's in every kind of..thing like that. 'This woman', they say, 'she lost her… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When we squander the moments of our lives, Peter, we are spending the most valuable currency.” — Barbara Avon Copy Share Image
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes, — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained. — John Banville Copy Share Image
