Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper. — Kathleen Dowling Singh 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
“To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.” — Amy Denise Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal. — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
“Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.” — Christine Montross Copy Share Image
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
“OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.” — Qntm Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back. — Gary Bettman Copy Share Image
“Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as… — Kristin Hannah 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 do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant,… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the… — Philip K. Dick 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
