Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
“Zu früh, befürcht ich; denn mein Herz erbangt Und ahnet ein Verhängnis, welches, noch Verborgen in den Sternen, heute Nacht Bei dieser… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Anything that has to do with air travel and air tragedy is of interest to me. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late. — William Mather Lewis Copy Share Image
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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