“The best thing you can say to someone going through a tragic loss is not that "It's going to be alright" It… — JohnA Passaro Copy Share Image
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning. — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
“I believe that life is full of tragedy. Some lives more than others. But I also believe that comfort can be found… — Eliza Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“Comedy was invented to make people forget, That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Keep being yourself as well. Many times when life gets us down, all we desire for is some normalcy after tragedy. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window… — Arthur F. Burns Copy Share Image
The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another… — K'naan Copy Share Image
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“ Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
I’m haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of what could have been is nearly as crippling as what once was but can never be again.” — Courtney Peppernell Copy Share Image
“An idle mind was a recipe for disaster. Bathsheba wasn’t just teetering on the edge; I knew she was going to be… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
When a tragic circumstance rules our life, each one of us needs to take the time needed to heal. No matter the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
“Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude...Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.' — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
Seeing the steady increases in those with a visible difference or disfigurement experiencing hate crimes is frightening. We can't wait for a… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of life is that only some of the people in this world succeed in making use of the second… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” — Benjamin E Mays Copy Share Image
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
“You have life written all over you. Some people bear tragedy on their faces; loss, death, whatever it might be. But you… — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
