I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it? — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal. — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough. — David Robinson Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way,… — Valentino Rossi Copy Share Image
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be… — Paul Lazarsfeld Copy Share Image
John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Something is fundamentally amiss when you refer to a person as illegal. Bottom line. That's why we so easily talk about this… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
