Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Edward Bond

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Jonas Salk

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

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.

Paulo Coelho

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

Quentin Crisp

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Pico Iyer

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Thomas Sowell

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Robin Morgan

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

Thomas Harris

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

Thomas Kyd

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

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.