There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life. — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Our shouting is louder than our actions. Our swords are taller than us. That is our tragedy. — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
“I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.” — Turcois Ominek Copy Share Image
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“This was not a love story that ended in tragedy. This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.” — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way,… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“People need people and the happiest people are surrounded with friendly flesh. If you have ten kids they'll be so sweet --… — Mark Halliday Copy Share Image
“Breakfasts, picnics, ocean voyages, costume balls, newspapers, boating on the river. Such items do not assort very well with tragedy. But in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant,… — David S. Baxter 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
“If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never find out what it is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“The tragedy isn’t in the lesson, but in the manner that it’s learned.” — Lakambini A. Sitoy Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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