Quotes about tragedy
tragedy benefits
The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved. Andrew Solomon
tragedy would-be able
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
tragedy important world
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
tragedy ghost witch
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
tragedy language force
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so. Andrea Dworkin
tragedy want novel
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. Jane Smiley
tragedy comedy timing
Comedy is tragedy plus timing. Bob Odenkirk
tragedy great-tragedy
It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love. Bill Johnson
tragedy mask comic
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. Edith Wharton
tragedy concepts
Tragedy is a literary concept. David Hockney
tragedy development facts
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten. Barbara Tuchman
tragedy hot sophie
By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast! Diana Wynne Jones
tragedy cocktails olives
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. Dean Koontz
tragedy enough stage
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. Antonin Artaud
tragedy saint christianity
Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity. Aiden Wilson Tozer
tragedy
Tragedy alters everything. Diane Setterfield
tragedy storytelling form
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic. Carlton Cuse
tragedy wealth faster
Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy. Charlie Munger
tragedy investing typical
Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
tragedy life-is tragic
A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else. Charles M. Schulz
tragedy departure earth
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy. William Shakespeare
tragedy comedy wells
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. Charlton Heston
tragedy fairytale nations
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy. Ai Weiwei
tragedy life-is lows
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim. Benjamin E. Mays
tragedy body want
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body. Carl Jung
tragedy worse
We see this tragedy not getting better each day, but getting worse each day.
tragedy weighed
The tragedy of 9-11 weighed heavily on him.
tragedy
We want to keep it like that. We don't want a tragedy to occur. Richard Dormer
tragedy narrative comfort
Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history. Greg Graffin
tragedy
The whole world should feel that this tragedy is its own.
tragedy
It was just not a pretty scene, ... It's just a tragedy for our community.
tragedy deuces comic
Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do? Gilbert K. Chesterton
tragedy stories ends
Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness. Jeanette Winterson