Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes tragedy brings about compassion that another person needs.” — Tony Bertauski Copy Share Image
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“The value of every life is based on the tragedy it leaves behind with some person.” — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
“The greatest Tragedy of life is not death but what dies within us when we are still alive” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such a senseless tragedy. when are we going to reconsider the role of guns in society? how many more times does this… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Tragedy was a commodity like any other. it was meant to be consumed- individually and collectively.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.” — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it's all a part of the same process as… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It's amazing when tragedy strikes, how strong you find that you are, and I'd seen other people go through horrible things. And… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
“Tragedy never took its full chunk out of you right way. It always took a while to hit you head on, and… — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'.… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the… — Tony Clark Copy Share Image
Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to predict that there will be conflict, but you place yourself in a maelstrom when you offer a view… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
I'm connected to the event of 9/11 by my desire to do something to honor the 9/11 survivors and those who didn't… — Jewell Parker Rhodes Copy Share Image
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy. — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of 'Stranger Things.' — David Harbour Copy Share Image
“Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.” — Izzeldin Abuelaish Copy Share Image