Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The reality that someone you love has died is its own tragedy. But it's separate, isn't it, from the way it happened?” — Sherrida Woodley Copy Share Image
I am a 911 dispatcher. I have heard real drama as it unfolds. Your piddly assed problem does not compare real tragedy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to… — Livy Copy Share Image
I think that ultimately when life is not tragedy it should be a party and if you've faced the real stuff, if… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and… — Andrea Yates Copy Share Image
Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so… — Logan Kain Copy Share Image
“Billy sipped the last of his coffee from the mug and shut down his laptop. 1,000 words wasn’t great but it also… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
“She has decided to keep going, as anyone could tell by her closed eyes and calm expression. She realizes that all big… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be… — Graeme Galton Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn… — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury — Mig Greengard Copy Share Image
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.” — Helen Gardner Copy Share Image
