Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa McMann

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

Libba Bray

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

Nick Frost

God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Mignon McLaughlin

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

May Sarton

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

Matt Mullenweg

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

Maya Angelou

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

Mark Rosenker

This is a tragedy that should not have happened.

Steve Coogan

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Phyllis Diller

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

Stephen Leacock

All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.

Stephen King

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

Tig Notaro

I am just at tragedy right now.

Tana French

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Steve Perry

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

Shirley Manson

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

Shepard Smith

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

Susan Sontag

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Radha Mitchell

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Rahul Gandhi

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

Lenny Bruce

Satire is tragedy plus time.

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

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

Rick Warren

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

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.

Mel Brooks

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

Pierre Corneille

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

Paulo Coelho

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.