Quotes of: Terrible-tragedy Keyword

We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress and change… are absolutely tremendous. Anybody who te...

Robert Anton Wilson

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after...

Hypatia

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Wislawa Szymborska

Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way...

The Beginning of Everything

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

Dorothy Parker

Move thy tongue, For silence is a sign of discontent.

The Tragedy of Mariam

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Juliette Binoche

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

Rafael Palmeiro

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

War and Peace

As a rule, we don't like to feel to sad or lonely or depressed. So why do we like music (or books or movies) that evoke in us those same negative emotions? Why do we choose to experience in art the very feelings we avoid in real life? Aristotle deals...

Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive

How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.” He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug. “Of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but...

Just Like Heaven

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Shadow of the Hegemon

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

Remember, it’s the pace that kills, never the distance.

The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy. This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.

Love and Decay, Vol. Two

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

Othello and the Tragedy of Mariam

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

William Barclay