“Your whole picture of the world broke," he said, "and you felt like you had gone mad." "Yes." "And I didn't even… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy. — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted… — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
If we believe that the EU is only a fair-weather event we will be doomed. The EU cannot be an answer only… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
“We mourn for the dead, but it's a selfish act. It may be a tragedy that so many young lives are lost… — Jenny Penn Copy Share Image
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything… — Mario Van Peebles Copy Share Image
This is the tragedy of the entrepreneur. They literally cannot slack off. That's why Alan Sugar looks so jowly, tired and angry,… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes. — Nicholas Jarecki Copy Share Image
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image