“We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“We’ve repeated history a few times and it seems to be getting worse before it gets better. And it will get better.… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability… — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I thought I was learning how to live..i have been learning how to die..!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums,… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
