Bears Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bears Catastrophe Catastrophes Catastrophes Tragedy Dignified Catastrophes Drama Life Littles Resemblance Ruin Inflicted Ruins Slow Ruin Tragedy
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The Apocalypse can take different forms. The least dramatic, at first sight, is the one in which man perishes under an avalanche of useless… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold… — James McBride Copy Share Image