Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Crisp

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Pico Iyer

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Leona Lewis

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Leo Tolstoy

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Phyllis Diller

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

Radha Mitchell

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Rahul Gandhi

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

Lenny Bruce

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Joyce Maynard

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

Josephine Hart

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

Julius Caesar

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Joyce Cary

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

Oscar Hammerstein II

These are a few of my favorite things.

Oscar Hammerstein II

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

Joyce Meyer

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Katharine Kerr

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

Karen Russell

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

Louise Hay

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

Jonas Salk

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Gabrielle Roy

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

Frida Kahlo

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Ellen Page

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Edward Bond

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Holly Black

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

Henri Nouwen

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

Jim Rohn

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Barbara Tuchman

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.