As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
I am secretly afraid of animals… I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow,… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the club on… — Andy Hunter Copy Share Image
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because… — Rachel Uchitel Copy Share Image
“A tragic woman hooks into an ain't-shit man, or worse-- let's him hook into her. He will drag her until he tires.… — Britt Bennett Copy Share Image
One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic,… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who's trying to drink himself… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic… — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Copy Share Image
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion… — Andrew Coyle Bradley 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
I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as… — Jeremy Kyle Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is… — Tobias Wolff 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
The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
I've seen some glaciers in the world which have been, which are just turquoise blue blue glaciers up in the Arctic. It's… — Lewis Pugh Copy Share Image
For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them… — Judge Reinhold Copy Share Image
Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount… — C.D. Payne 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
It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image