We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance. — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief.… — Mona Caird Copy Share Image
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's such an honor to be representing the USA in an international beauty contest in spite of all the tragedy that's happened… — Olivia Culpo Copy Share Image
“Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a moment, in every young girl's life, whether it happens with your family, or a tragedy or death… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Pebble Mill was packed with a lot of talent and a lot of really, really good stuff came out of Birmingham. It… — Christopher Timothy Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it. — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
“Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.” — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played… — Marie Dressler Copy Share Image
“Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A lot of people consider 9/11 to be a tragedy, and in some ways it is, but I think there's also opportunity… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Aristotle defined tragedy as a terrible outcome arising from a person’s fatal flaw— a flaw that, had it been fixed, instead would… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.” — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“Everything is 'just a story'. Tragedy, comedy, end of the world, what ever it's just a story. What matters is making sure… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness? — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper. — Kathleen Dowling Singh Copy Share Image
Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits. — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
Tragedy, loss, and hurt often arrive unanticipated. How we react when we are surprised will tell our families whether what we have… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image