Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joni Mitchell

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Frida Kahlo

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Oliver Stone

My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.

Emile M. Cioran

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Ellen Glasgow

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Henri Nouwen

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

Erik Erikson

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

John Guare

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Mark Rosenker

This is a tragedy that should not have happened.

Henry Miller

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

Helen Keller

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

Jeff Bridges

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Gilbert Gottfried

With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.

George Orwell

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

Jeanette Winterson

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

George Eliot

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

The whole world should feel that this tragedy is its own.

The tragedy of 9-11 weighed heavily on him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Myles Munroe

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Mike Birbiglia

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

Greg Graffin

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.

It was just not a pretty scene, ... It's just a tragedy for our community.

Jonas Salk

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

Oscar Hammerstein II

These are a few of my favorite things.

Oscar Hammerstein II

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

Paul Watson

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.