The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold. — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to… — Horace Copy Share Image
My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“Rain has to fall before a rainbow appears. It often takes a tragedy to make us take another look at our lives,… — Talidari Copy Share Image
This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our… — Kerry King Copy Share Image
“Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I don't think I could ever reach the giddy heights of the inspired comedy and tragedy that's happening now in Washington. I… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow… — Suzanne E. Anderson Copy Share Image
On September 11, 2001, America suffered an unimaginable tragedy and witnessed the incredible heroism of hundreds of first responders who rushed into… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
“The tragedy in life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live. Don't let yourself die… — Willow Rose Copy Share Image
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy. — Jeff MacNelly Copy Share Image
The Ukrainian nation, as no other nation, understands and is fully aware of the tragedy and its scale of all the lost… — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
“When it happens to you it's a national tragedy— Why aren't the papers reporting this? you wonder. Only when it happens to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by my attempt at humor regarding the tragedy in Japan. I meant no disrespect,… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
