Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

Joyce Meyer

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Katharine Kerr

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

Karen Russell

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

Leona Lewis

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Frida Kahlo

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Julius Caesar

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Joyce Cary

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Patrick Ness

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

Patrick Rothfuss

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

Nicholas Sparks

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

Nelson Mandela

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Olivia Thirlby

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.