Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Nelson Mandela

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Myles Munroe

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Robert Pattinson

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

W. Somerset Maugham

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Zelda Fitzgerald

One illusion is as good as another.

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

T. S. Eliot

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

Richard Beymer

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Vanna Bonta

The illusion is we are only physical.

Sherman Alexie

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

John Eccles

I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.

Roberto Unger

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Zoe Heller

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

Source Unknown

I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.

Tom McDonald

In the seven years of the Munsterlander Club's existence, we have had six of these get-togethers in some centrally located, upper-Midwestern state,

Bhagwan Rajneesh

The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival...because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.

Emile M. Cioran

An existence transfigured by failure.

Judith McNaught

Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen

Maimonides

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.