I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you’d told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You’d had one...

Any deal that recognizes Iran “right” to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.

When you make a film, if you are an insider, you’re usually the last person to know that your film is not right. But when you are an outsider, you have a little more objectivity.I...

Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They’re going to say it’ll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don’t listen to them....

One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of...

This is a tragedy, and they do it with a pretext or without it.

A writer’s duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

… misfortune and creativity go together.

Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent.

Pedras žinojo tai, ką žino kiekvienas tikras klounas: jog juokas – ištikimiausias tragedijos palydovas.

If she’s gonna love again, it won’t be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers.

Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between...

It was just a horrific tragedy for everybody involved. Just a ruination of a lot of lives.

„Bin weder Fräulein, weder schön,kann ungeleitet nach Hause gehn.

Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with...

It was a really great time for her. She was single and dating and beautiful in New York in the ’60s … You don’t have to be completely consumed or subsumed by the tragedy.

A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a...

Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty, beyond waht can be valued, rich or rare; no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; as...

I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp...

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief.

Why couldn’t he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were...

Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

It’s not enough to be the best. You also have to be seen by the most. A masterpiece painting hanging in the storage unit of the artist who painted it is not art—it’s irrelevant. It’s...

A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare’s tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare’s comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the laughter...

In a fit of anger he had said to her, “You’ll always be miserable,” to which she thoughtfully replied, “Is that so? It’s impossible to be miserable when you’ve known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen...

Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect.

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

It is difficult to move on when your surroundings stay the same.

las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.

Dear God,I hurt. Please hold me.Amen

I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger” – Billy Connolly

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.

Comedies are fit for common wits: But to present a kingly troop withal, Give me a stately-written tragedy; Tragadia cothurnata, fitting kings, Containing matter, and not common things.

When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my...

A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren’t one story. We can change our stories. We can...

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

I would hate to see seventeen people with monosyllabic names like Mike or Ann die, but if they did, and you wrote down all their names in groups of 5-7-5, you’d have one tragic haiku.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.

What you think to be a tragedy id God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

There did not appear to be any smoke detectors in there, which certainly could have contributed to the tragedy.

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.