In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”...

Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it!

Life requires us to do things anyway, despite what sort of fear or monster or tragedy or suffering lurks behind that anyway.

It appears as though President Bush wants to exploit this national tragedy to implement an ideological agenda. … What’s next, a special Social Security privatization zone?

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.

The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

The tragedy that happened at Lamar had a tremendous impact on us within the athletic department and at the university, as a whole. Like everything else, though, life must go on. I remember us coming...

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

This is a terrible tragedy.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

The women cried with one another, and it didn’t seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned.

could be a new tragedy for French farmers.

A darkness different from Ember’s, but just as frightening…

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOUWhen I hold a rose,I see the soft, velvety petalsand smile, becausetucked betweenthose precious petalsis a special gift -the one of a fragrance,pure and sweet.When you hold a rose,you see...

Deana Carter sings about it. Lady Antebellum sings about it. Eric Church. Gosh, not just country artists. Katy Perry. Everybody has a song about it because everybody’s been through it. You find that person at...

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect...

Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we...

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a...

Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn’t know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people had died in terror, horror, and pain. More than likely, they...

How now! Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” Lady Macbeth

The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn’t make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so...

You’re the hunter, the warrior. You’re stronger than anyone else here, that’s your tragedy.

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

It’s a small number and everyone knows it’s going to grow. Today’s number will only begin to describe and quantify the tragedy.

The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy!

Some people’s glasses are half full. I’m the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I still remember my childhood. Some people are vegans. I have common sense.Some people...

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Like so many of our neighbors who latched onto tragedy to stand out from the crowd — slavery, incest, a suicide — I had exaggerated the ethnic chip on my shoulder for effect. I’ve learned...

It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to...

You see, nothing matters except pleasure – which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Sometimes by holding onto what you love the most — you end up choking the very life from the thing you want to keep on living. It’s possible to try too hard, to love something...

The whole world should feel that this tragedy is its own.

What amazes me most is that we, as a people, have shared our collective story of being thrown out of our homeland, Palestine, with each other and with many others- actually we have bored the...

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do....

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.For here though death doth end their misery,I’ll there begin their endless tragedy.

We conform to pain until we don’t notice it anymore; it’s what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.

As a rule, we don’t like to feel to sad or lonely or depressed. So why do we like music (or books or movies) that evoke in us those same negative emotions? Why do we...

The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one’s new beau consistently failing to meet...

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

When tragedy befalls me and someone says, “Better you than me,” I always reply, “Yes, I am better than you.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn’t really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I...

Garfield’s assassination attempt made “the whole nation care”.