“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.” — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness. — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. — Maxwell Anderson Copy Share Image
Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Lady Margaret Sackville Copy Share Image
“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.” — Judith Ortiz Cofer Copy Share Image
Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch '21 Grams.' I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any… — George Takei Copy Share Image
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No one really knew what went on in her relationship with Mike. No one even really knew her. Maybe she loved Mike… — Jennifer Close Copy Share Image
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Year - 1984 Place - India (most populous Democracy in the world), two cold-blooded tragedies within a month in winters of 1984… — Mohit Sharma Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Catastrophe alone sparks man’s salvation. I don’t mean in the religious sense, although I guess it is appropriate there, too, because believers… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Until the moment of that dismissal with its reason given, he had received out of anywhere—or was it out of nowhere in… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas… — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss.” — Sarah Rayner Copy Share Image
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
