And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried. — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“After a brief moment of splendour, the whole enterprise too a sad turn.” — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of contemporary philosophy is that it has been castrated.” — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Whether our life has been a triumph or tragedy can only be judged at its very end. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy. — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen,… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
When tragedy strikes, everybody always thinks about the impact and whether you survive or not. Hardly ever do you think about how… — Trent Williams Copy Share Image
You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as… — Ernie Hudson Copy Share Image
It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy. — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes… — Alan Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take,… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, that's good drama - the marriage plot or the tragedy - but the reality of women's lives is that most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The… — William Hudson O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool… — Megan Karasch Copy Share Image
One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the… — Wangari Maathai 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
You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment.” — Brian McGreevy Copy Share Image
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“There is no tragedy without commitment; no negation even, without it.” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“Tragedy always moves our story forward in a way shalom could never accomplish.” — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
