The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity. — Raisa Gorbacheva Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that… — K.L. Toth Copy Share Image
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Keep being yourself as well. Many times when life gets us down, all we desire for is some normalcy after tragedy. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
“Comedy was invented to make people forget, That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
When a tragic circumstance rules our life, each one of us needs to take the time needed to heal. No matter the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" -… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
“An idle mind was a recipe for disaster. Bathsheba wasn’t just teetering on the edge; I knew she was going to be… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of what could have been is nearly as crippling as what once was but can never be again.” — Courtney Peppernell 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
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
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
“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
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature. — Anonymous 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
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
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
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