“It's love that enslaves us...It is the play within the play, the stage on which the tragic drama of our human lives… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment,… — Carolyn Parrish Copy Share Image
It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic… — Beverly Johnson Copy Share Image
For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry!" Piggy cried, knowing for certain now that he could never return. That he had a promise to keep in the… — Diana Henstell Copy Share Image
I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I think what history will show is that one of the most tragic results of the war in Iraq will be that… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Anytime you hurt somebody else it's definitely just tragic...To ruin someone else's self-esteem or make someone feel bad about anything is never… — Kris Jenner Copy Share Image
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Human life is fatally fragile and subject to forces beyond our power to manage. Life is tragic.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
The 200 is tragic! It's my favorite race, but it takes so much out of the body - and it's too much… — Tori Bowie 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
With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep. — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
