Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ellen Page

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Holly Black

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

Henri Nouwen

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

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.

Mason Cooley

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

Mason Cooley

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Marie Osmond

Tragedy plus time equals humor

Mahatma Gandhi

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

Erik Erikson

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

John Piper

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

John Piper

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Michael M. Honda

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

Michael Bay

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

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.

John Guare

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

John Galsworthy

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Gabrielle Roy

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

Louise Hay

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

Leo Tolstoy

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Joyce Maynard

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

Josephine Hart

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

Jim Rohn

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.