Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonas Salk

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

Paulo Coelho

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

Paulo Coelho

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

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.

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.

Paul Watson

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

Mel Brooks

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

Erik Erikson

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

John Guare

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

John Galsworthy

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

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

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.

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.

Leona Lewis

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Frida Kahlo

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

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.

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.

Susan Sontag

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Tana French

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Robin Gibb

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Richelle Mead

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

Thomas Sowell

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Stephen Leacock

All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.

Stephen King

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

Steve Perry

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

Shirley Manson

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

Shepard Smith

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

Pierre Corneille

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.