I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them. — Katharine Susannah Prichard Copy Share Image
“... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“I had no eyelashes left. So when I cried, the tears rolled down, unabated to my mouth. My saliva tasted those days,… — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One… — Peggy Ashcroft 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
Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" -… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“I ended that letter, 'There is nothing in this life that is a complete tragedy - nothing - try to remember that.'… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
“it didn’t matter who you were or what you’d accomplished in life; none of that mattered when tragedy struck. You had no… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer (whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image