I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer – but yours! How can I?

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that’s...

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Life is a mystical and tragic thing. It is a journey often full of fear, when it ought to be full of hope. It’s fascinating to look back on your life and feel as though...

If we could only get rid of consciousness. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal...

For me was the Holocaust not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I...

Tell her I’m sorry I sold the diamond, eh?” Sammy said. “I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska… ah, so long ago, I finally used that diamond, moved to Texas as I always...

…it struck her, this was tragedy– not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

O honorable strumpet

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young – and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the...

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean...

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

the undiscovered self”; being alive without knowing why.

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

Believe in love, Believe in yourself, and Believe we make our own destiny.

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d’etats on the state of irrational optimism

The human race has the capacity to render itself extinct unless alternatives are found to the patterns of intraspecific warfare that have dominated civilized history. Ours has long been a predatory species. Living, for humans,...

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that’s the soul seeking...

Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us.

The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame[…]The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he’s circling at eye level now and seems to have lost...

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see...

We have really been moved by so much tragedy that I said to our guys that we need to do something that can lighten their load momentarily and give the people a fun evening. We...

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

This tragedy didn’t hit Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It hit America.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more …

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers. Education...

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look...

Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn’t just sad and slow music. It’s a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the...

It is a great tragedy when a young child loses a parent, as Elian did during his trip to the United States, … But it is an equal tragedy for any parent to face the...

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is...

If the sky falls, there’ll be a bigger sky behind it.

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible...

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...

This is why some relationships look so beautiful and some look so tragic — beauty belongs to the thoughtful; tragedy to the neglectful.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

(…)que morrer é acabar e amor não tem saída(…)

Talkatives complain, cry, shout, brag, and are more hysterical about their lives than something else; don’t be a part of that tragedy! Perhaps it’s been a while now that you have been complaining, crying and...