Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Ai Weiwei

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

Bob Odenkirk

Comedy is tragedy plus timing.

Bill Johnson

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Frank Lowy

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

Gunter Grass

We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'

Charles Patterson

Dr. Josef Mengele, who conducted experiments on Jews and Gypsies at Auschwitz (he had two doctorates, by the way) would have fit in quite nicely at Columbia, ... To paraphrase Theodor Adorno, the German Jewish philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, 'Auschwitz begins wherever somebody looks at a Columbia lab and thinks: they're only animals.'

Pat Buchanan

Twenty-five hundred is a terrible tragedy; Auschwitz it is not.

Gunter Grass

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

Theodor Adorno

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.