The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the… — David Gemmell 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
Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
“The deep vexation of is inward soul Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue; Who, mad that sorrow should his use… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The reality is, there is heartbreaking tragedy that has struck American families because people who came into this country illegally are now… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In the end I was the clay and she was the sculptor, I thought, it's a shame that we have to live,… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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 widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the… — Anonymous 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
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted;… — Émile Gaboriau Copy Share Image
I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more… — Brett Favre Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a moment, in every young girl's life, whether it happens with your family, or a tragedy or death… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image