There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked...

The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He’s this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot...

Life is one big Coaster Ride -Sometimes You are UP, sometimes Down and sometimes You are in the Middle Screaming your head off wondering what it’s all about!!!

It’s hard to put an estimate to this. A lot of the buildings are extremely old. Beyond the tragedy that happened, there’s a lot of history lost.

a tragedy, a disgrace.

she is waiting the day she would stop writing about him in her daily book

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, “What is important to me now?

I know that you’re selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven’t the nerve of a rabbit, I know you’re a liar and a humbug, I know that you’re utterly contemptible. And the...

In your tragedies you will find your most magnificent opportunities for rebirth.

We only learn wisdom through suffering.

And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men...

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don’t fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

It simply tells a story about two rather unremarkable men and their tragedy. It doesn’t wave a banner of triumph over any lifestyle. It is a story about life. A realistic story, and a very...

He’s opening a door, but he already knows I won’t walk through. The power of Bodee is in the way he reads me, sees through me, and then understands the truth behind the facade. He’s...

Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

I won’t cause you any problems by reporting this. You will have no trouble from me.

No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that’s left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can’t help but...

The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being...

Francis stared down at the Duchess of York’s letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, “It was showed by John Sponer that King Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us, was through great...

It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (…): the absurd pretension that human...

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever...

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren’t meant to be happy.

Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose.” Macbeth

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the...

That when you get an adult that comes into an activity like that and tries to exploit young people I think is a tragedy.

The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and incidents of the play—which is the better way and shows the better poet....

Women want respect but are let down by those of them who don’t respect themselves. Several men use this as an excuse to disrespect women. We are born with this as the norm and not...

I killed a man for his shoes, and then I realized his feet were much smaller than mine. So I walked around barefoot for a week, in honor of a man who died a senseless...

Confidence don’t mean jack shit in the real world, sis,” she once said. I feel myself finding the courage to trust those words more and more with every twist of the knife. Coincidentally, last Tuesday...

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

In the initial response to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, particularly in Louisiana, governments at all levels failed in this obligation,

I can’t imagine that I’m supposed to get over it , like hopping a low stone wall; if Thursday was a barrier of some kind, it was made of razor wire, which I did not...

right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.

Everyone wears masks.They come in all different shapes and sizes.The only problem with trying one on is that it fits. How easily we fall into the trap that we don’t have to be who we...

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered...

I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.

TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of,indicting him in threatening proclamationas murderer of Laius)- he is here.In name he is a stranger among citizensbut soon...

You know, you can never be perfect in a tragedy like this. You’d like to be perfect and be there the moment someone needs help. But as hard as these people tried and the states...

Va, je ne te hais point.

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our...

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts – somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.attrition rules.most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.and nowas we ready to self-destructthere is...

Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

One of the things that helps use cope with loss is the fact that while memories may remian, the emotions associated with them will fade like old photographs. At the same time, there is a...

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to...

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.