If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five. — William Holden Copy Share Image
“...but destiny had a number of tricks up her sleeve, didn't she, both joyful and tragic?” — Heather Barbieri Copy Share Image
“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.” — Helen Gardner Copy Share Image
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.' — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Sorry I can't today... My sisters friends mothers fathers sons grandsons uncles fish died. And yes, it was tragic — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Souls soar high above reach, Hands extend but never touch, Words exchanged in dulcet tones, Tis a fated moment to understand one's… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
“Suddenly exhausted, she closes her eyes and slips into nightmares again. Graveyards rising out of the ocean. Her friends’ corpses in the… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many,… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me.… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there.… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
