Quotes of: Great-tragedy Keyword

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the ...

A Little Love Story

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affe...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

We weren't born yesterday. We are from [New York]. But we are also from somewhere else. We are from Oz, from the Looking-Glass Land, from Narnia, and from Middle Earth. If with part of ourselves we are men and women of the world and share the sad unb...

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. W...

The Four Loves

Life is a tragedy of nutrition

The Definite Cure of Chronic Constipation: Also: Overcoming Constipation Naturally

And in the vine of the divine, There is a fine line; Between tragedy and comedy, That a man cannot define.

Equinox

I pictured her tragically; it never once ocurred to me to picture her as the tragedy.

The Beginning of Everything

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Paul Klee

I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.

On Agate Hill

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

Mrs. Dalloway

Every normal family is one tragedy away from complete implosion.

The Sea of Tranquility

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Science and the Modern World

That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss.

One Moment, One Morning

The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.

We Shadows

The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

Larry MacPhail

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Rebel Wilson

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Roberto Benigni

Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

Kirk Cameron

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

Sarah Parish

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Vaclav Havel