The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy is that many of us spent our life without knowing about our true potential. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“Monsters are tragic beings; they are born too tall, too strong, too heavy, they are not evil by choice. That is their… — Ishiro Honda Copy Share Image
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
“Not since the Kennedy's of Massachusetts has an American family publicly suffered personal tragedy after personal tragedy like the Von Erichs of… — Ron G. Mullinax Copy Share Image
When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy. — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's… — Lindsey Davis Copy Share Image
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures… — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy. — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
“A tragedy can catch us any time possible; for this very reason, we must catch the life any time possible!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of… — Benjamin E Mays Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a tragedy sends us down the path we’re supposed to be on so we can find what we’re meant to find.… — AnnaLisa Grant Copy Share Image
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic… — Roselyne Bosch Copy Share Image
“And in the vine of the divine, There is a fine line; Between tragedy and comedy, That a man cannot define.” — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I keep wishing you had had a better life...a different life. But a different life would have made you a different Blue."… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
