The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. That we are not tragedies… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
There's not an athlete in the world who doesn't deal with the same issues you and I have: frustrations with our family,… — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
330,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police see Trump's commitment to law and order. But they also - they also hear… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Everyone wears masks. They come in all different shapes and sizes. The only problem with trying one on - is that it… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never find out what it is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
It got to the point the last time, at Texas, where every loss was a tragedy and every win was exhaling. — Mack Brown Copy Share Image
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“There is something more dangerous than the death of one’s body. It is “the undiscovered self”; being alive without knowing why.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I put my heart into 'Vaaranam Ayiram.' I lost my father when I began the film, and the tragedy turned my entire… — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're… — Chukwudi Iwuji Copy Share Image
“When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
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