Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olivia Wilde

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Mark Twain

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

Marvin J. Ashton

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

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.

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.

Simone Weil

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Ruta Sepetys

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

Robin Gibb

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Voltaire

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

William Butler Yeats

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

Vladimir Putin

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

Winifred Holtby

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Woody Allen

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

Sara Zarr

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

Willard Scott

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

Wislawa Szymborska

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Wes Moore

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

W. Eugene Smith

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

W. C. Fields

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

William Dean Howells

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Wolfgang Tillmans

What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.