#tragedy

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. ↗

— Benjamin E. Mays

#does #goal #having #lie #lies

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#comedy #inescapable #laugh #often #realization

I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#crazy #else #felt #go #had

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. ↗

— John Mortimer

#minute #per #played #revolutions #thousand

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#her #lot #national #national politics #other

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#game #heartbreaking #losing #sense #tragedy

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#death #folks #forget #hurricane #hurricane katrina

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#anger #any #anyone #come #cope

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#know #knows #less #man #more

Tragedy is a literary concept. ↗

— David Hockney

#literary #tragedy