Quotes by Tragedy It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life. Emma Goldman understandingtragedypeople To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson tragedyliteraturebees I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior. Emma Goldman understandingtragedypeople I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy. Eric Drooker easiercomedytragedy Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else? Eric Davis cancertragedydoe There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items on the menu: comedy and tragedy. Eric Drooker tragedytwopeople We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending. Eric Drooker tragedygreekmean When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy. Eric Drooker teenagertragedycharacter By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork. Eric Drooker tragedytryingthinking Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. Eric Idle comedytragedytrying People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life. Eric Jerome Dickey paintragedypeople Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on. Eric Stoltz relationships-endingtragedypeople And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried. Erich Segal tearstragedydone The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy. Erik Erikson tragedylife-isfacts The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born. Erich Fromm borntragedylife It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live. Erich Fromm diestragedydeath Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time. Eustace Haydon starstragedytime Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides grieftragedyyesterday Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? Eugene Mirman politicstragedywar There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die. Eve Babitz tragedybraintwo«1112131415161718192021»
