In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In the end I was the clay and she was the sculptor, I thought, it's a shame that we have to live,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The reality is, there is heartbreaking tragedy that has struck American families because people who came into this country illegally are now… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted;… — Émile Gaboriau Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more… — Brett Favre Copy Share Image
“The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep… — Maya Van Wagenen Copy Share Image
I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Being depressed is not a beautiful tragedy - it's hell and it's agony. Posting photos of someone that you don't have the… — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I've dealt with some tragedy in my life, like losing my brother. That was probably one of the hardest days when I've… — Joe Nemechek Copy Share Image
Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
