I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness. — Prince Hassan bin Talal Copy Share Image
I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents. — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have to be kind of alerted to the fact that clowns are scary and then you can't look at them the… — Reece Shearsmith Copy Share Image
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animals have their tragic and their comic side, and resemble us in many ways. They, too, have their distinctions and individualities. Many… — Manfred Kyber Copy Share Image
“To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
As for these 60 years, and in general more than a hundred years, we have had different periods in relations and there… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
