Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can’t affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it’s the most wonderful song the...

The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.

I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i’m masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account...

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don’t have the wit to deal...

In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.

They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it’s actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims...

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the...

It’s a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.