Isolation Quote by John F. Lynen

“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of…

— Philip Roth

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a…

— Edgar Allan Poe

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

— Oscar Wilde

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to…

— Arnold Bennett

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“he mentioned that The Tragedy of Man by Madách had “influenced my whole life.” The moral he recalled from it was that no matter…

— William Lanouette

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

— Anonymous

“But see, amid the mimic rout A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes!- it writhes!-…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

— Philip Roth

“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent…

— John F. Kennedy

“Here is someone not set up for life's working out poorly, let alone for the impossible.But who is set up for the impossible that…

— Philip Roth

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him…

— Sun Ra