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
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
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
COVID has been devastating on multiple levels, but we don't have to let it be a long-term tragedy for our families. — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My hope and my intention was that people would experience the tragedy of what Chernobyl was in every regard: a scientific tragedy,… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Some are born rich While others poor; Some are born free While others captives; Some are born blessed While others deprived; Some… — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just… — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music… — TobyMac Copy Share Image
“Such is the tragedy of girls and women who by the strictures of their upbringing and culture cannot own up to their… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali 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
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself. — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy. — Lee Corso Copy Share Image
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint. — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with… — David Gemmell Lord of the Silver Bow Copy Share Image
“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t. — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“I believe that life is full of tragedy. Some lives more than others. But I also believe that comfort can be found… — Eliza Maxwell Copy Share Image
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning. — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“The best thing you can say to someone going through a tragic loss is not that "It's going to be alright" It… — JohnA Passaro Copy Share Image
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
'There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted all the voyage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You thought I was answering "As you wish" but that's only because you were hearing wrong. "I love you" was what it… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
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