Failing Quote by Mignon McLaughlin Download Open image “Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.” — Mignon McLaughlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Failure Losing Tragedy
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
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure… — Tom Cochrane Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
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
True tragedy isn't losing love, its having all the love you need in front of you & choosing to throw it away. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image