#tragedy

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #artist #craftiness #craftsmanship #crafty

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#humor #tragedy #humor

I can't go on, I'll go on. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#drama #existentialism #fiction #humor #nihilism

In a world full of commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#compassion #healing #hope #kindness #love

Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously died in a car accident. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#bad-marriage #coffin #couple #curse #death

Dits par l'autre tout à l'heure ils l'irritaient et l'écoeuraient. Car les paroles d'amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent les goût des lèvres dont elles sortent. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#love

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#tragedy

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#delightful #i #merely #out #simply

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

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