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I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or another nation's.
I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.
My son Andrew was an extraordinary young man, loved and admired by all who knew him. His accidental death is a terrible tragedy.
It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.
I think whenever any kind of hardship or tragedy comes along, it usually pulls a family closer together or, at least, hopefully.
We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.
To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.
For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.
The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.
I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it's all a part of the same process as humans as we assimilate reality.
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy.
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.
I am always aware that I've had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.
And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.
I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.
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.
I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.