The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late. — William Mather Lewis Copy Share Image
Anything that has to do with air travel and air tragedy is of interest to me. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand… — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance? — John Updike Copy Share Image
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can… — Peter Vack Copy Share Image
Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Progressives must not portray all abortions as tragedies. . . Senator Hillary Clinton, in a 2005 speech commendable for setting forth a… — Dawn Johnsen Copy Share Image
“Pattie saw grief. Her eyes focused on a version of her own young self, and so many other children in Vietnam who… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended. God tells then they have been… — Peggy Haymes Copy Share Image
Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I like doing everything - theater and film, radio and TV, comedy and tragedy. I love it all. And I've never really… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
“The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it. — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Every broken heart has one time or another asked, What is important to me now? — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
