Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walker Percy

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Malcolm X

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Laura Esquivel

When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?

Emily Bronte

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

Rachel McAdams

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

Moliere

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Margaret Atwood

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

Taylor Swift

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

Matthew Fox

I think when people watch this show and get to the end of the episode, they're dying to find out what's going to happen next week and they really don't have any idea.

Walter Long

I think that dying is something that Napoleon has thought about from the very moment the sentence was pronounced in his case.

Raymond Chandler

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

Samuel Goldwyn

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

Robert Penn Warren

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

Walt Whitman

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots,

Sandra Brown

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

Rod McKuen

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

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.

W. Eugene Smith

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

W. C. Fields

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.