tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of… — Joseph Campbell 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
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
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As… — Mary Elizabeth Clark Copy Share Image
“OEDIPUS: O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me look upon you no… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you’re caught, caught at last… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“Charley threw Cindy on the bed and pulled a switchblade knife. He pressed the release button and a five-inch blade flipped open.… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That is, while many people prefer a happy ending (a classic comedy), sometimes a message can be communicated more powerfully by a… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C.… — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
“It’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
My son Andrew was an extraordinary young man, loved and admired by all who knew him. His accidental death is a terrible… — Yasmin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of… — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
In Louisiana, we are very familiar with the potential risks associated with offshore drilling and we have not forgotten the lessons learned… — John Bel Edwards Copy Share Image
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
