Yes, she was the girl playing basketball with all the boys in the park, collecting cans by the side of the road, keeping secret pet kittens in an empty boxcar in the woods, walking alone...

And if there is one last thing I would have you know before we reach these final pages, it’s that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we want it to...

Life is magical. If life had no magic, it would be tragic.

I wanted to fall; good thing you pushed me.

That’s what I’m trying, sir… getting my life.

—Elígeme —susurré—. Porque, ,mi corazón? ,Mi alma? ,Mi maldita existencia? Ya han hablado y te quieren, y únicamente a ti… para siempre.” -Chase

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how...

The world is a sad place today. I miss the good ol’ days. Gosh, why can’t I just go back to last weekend?

I still think that everyone’s life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst – the first step in the equation....

For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don’t kill your own dreams.

Yet despite…accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat–to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants of the peasantry, and to the political structure to society, since it created...

Love me, even if it’s a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye.

People will go through their entire lives justifying every damn decision…they’ll fight for all the wrong things, until finally the right thing stares at them square in the face. That’s when the choices start to...

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

Love is a lot like bowling, I thought as I drove by a boarded up and abandoned bowling alley. Like the economy, I’ve made a full recovery since we broke up.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this timeDon’t be surprised if even loneliness ignites.In past wars only bodys burnt, but this timeDon’t be surprised if even shadows ignite.

It’s hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace.

We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would...

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

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...

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

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that’s the beauty of it, too.

I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

Ang mga sagot ngayo’y baon-baon mo na sa kung saan ka man papunta. Sa paglisan mo ngayon, hindi ka na talaga babalik. Babalik ka man sa aking isip, nakaapak pa rin ako sa lupa kung...

Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The...

It’s just the love for her in my heart that is morphing into this madness and how can I run away from it? Sometimes I want to when I can’t bear it anymore, but where...

The Comtesse’s fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and prostitutes, actresses and politicians: the Duchesse de Crequy-Montmorency and Madame Roland; Madame du...