#tragic

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. ↗

— Nikolai Berdyaev

#burns #clash #pure #tragic #truth

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots. ↗

— Wendy Cope

#better #good #happy #happy life #i

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. ↗

— Leslie Easterbrook

#characters #comedy #desire #doing #ended

Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was someone for whom even happiness would cry for, mourning the death of his sentiments and murdering the existence of his soul. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#sad #tragic #death

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#country #every #land #like #palestine

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#happens #just #most #profoundly #situation

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

#becomes #come #event #hasn #life

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida. ↗

— Diego Rivera

#beloved #day #forever #frida #had

Her life has seen little light. She is twelve years old but has a woman’s weathered poise. Her abyss-blue eyes have a piercing focus that some adults find unsettling. [...] She has fired a gun into a human head. She has watched a pile of bodies set alight. She has starved and thirsted, stolen food and given it away, and glimpsed the meaning of life by watching it end over and over. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#dystopia #tragic #food

In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears... life! ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#romance #sad #tragic #life