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
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
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
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
Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of… — Vanessa Redgrave 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
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
“Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike… — Pam Jones Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing. — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in… — Max Boot 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
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Tragedy ridden, never fit in, and dead now A life gone so quickly, would it knock at the door? Fidgeting itty bitty… — Vocaloid Copy Share Image
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had… — David Toop Copy Share Image
The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
“People process death and tragedy differently. In my experience, there’s no right or wrong way.” — Mark Pryor Copy Share Image
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
People always think of the tragedy of going from being non-disabled to disabled. And no one really talks about it going the… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences. — Shin Kyung-sook Copy Share Image
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds As if it… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“The one common tragedy I have seen woven throughout my life and the lives of others is that we can't feel the… — Stephen Tobolowsky Copy Share Image
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