Commonplace Quote by John Masefield Download Open image “Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.” — John Masefield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonplace Dare Dislike People Tragedy
There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I can't say my life has been dominated by tragedy. I refuse to accept that. I've had less than some, more than others. — June Brown Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“(...) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/To try and try and never get it right./Oh, if I could -oh, if I only might,/I wouldn,t mind what hells I,d have to pass,/Not if the whole world called me fool and ass." Dauber (A poem).… — John Masefield Copy Share
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
