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And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.
The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
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.
I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.
For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.
You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air.
I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.
The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.
All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.
Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It's exciting! Tragedy! Fodder for a cable-news frenzy.
Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.
Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations.
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.