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God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?
It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.
We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You go ahead, call 9-1-1. Tell them I'm havin' a fantastic time.
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.
The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.
I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.
Venezuelans live on 3 dollars a month. That's a tragedy. That is impossible to survive under these conditions.
We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.
Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?
That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.
I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.