Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a sea You will only drown, If you think you can swim There are things that devours me,… — J. Limbu Copy Share Image
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society. — Kimbal Musk Copy Share Image
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
If Trump were to go ahead with a renewed policy of hostility toward Iran, it would immediately raise tensions, and could quickly… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to… — Cyprian Norwid Copy Share Image
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of Hetty is a ‘collide’26 between the free will and male dominant society or nobility27 or religion. If her conduct… — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar Copy Share Image
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust. — David Novak Copy Share Image
One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
“You have life written all over you. Some people bear tragedy on their faces; loss, death, whatever it might be. But you… — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you… — Sid Caesar Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of life is that only some of the people in this world succeed in making use of the second… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” — Benjamin E Mays Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.' — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
Seeing the steady increases in those with a visible difference or disfigurement experiencing hate crimes is frightening. We can't wait for a… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude...Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
