Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Smiley

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

George Orwell

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

Helen Keller

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

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.

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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

John Piper

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

John Piper

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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

Libba Bray

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

Mahatma Gandhi

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

Maya Angelou

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

Oliver Stone

My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.

James Thurber

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

Emile M. Cioran

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Ellen Glasgow

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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.

Simone Weil

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Tig Notaro

I am just at tragedy right now.

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.

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.

Milan Kundera

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Joni Mitchell

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Lisa McMann

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

May Sarton

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

Matt Mullenweg

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.