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
“Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot… — Michael Shermer 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
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall? — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international… — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted… — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself. — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives. — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
