- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/969/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/969/ <![CDATA[A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39433/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39433/ <![CDATA[It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39434/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39434/ <![CDATA[Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39435/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39435/ <![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39437/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39437/ <![CDATA[Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39438/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39438/ <![CDATA[When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39440/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39440/ <![CDATA[This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39441/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39441/ <![CDATA[In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39442/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39442/ <![CDATA[There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39432/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39432/ <![CDATA[Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39427/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39427/ <![CDATA[I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39424/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39424/ <![CDATA[Without alienation, there can be no politics.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2021/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2021/ <![CDATA[He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13787/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13787/ <![CDATA[Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33786/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33786/ <![CDATA[The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39430/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39430/ <![CDATA[Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39415/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39415/ <![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39416/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39416/ <![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39417/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39417/ <![CDATA[The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39419/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39419/ <![CDATA[It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39443/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39443/ <![CDATA[Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39917/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39917/ <![CDATA[An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2672/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2672/ <![CDATA[Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42047/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42047/ <![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39722/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39722/ <![CDATA[Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23434/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23434/ <![CDATA[Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27250/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27250/ <![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39762/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39762/ <![CDATA[The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39832/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39832/ <![CDATA[The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39830/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39830/ <![CDATA[It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12095/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12095/ <![CDATA[Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3604/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3604/ <![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40028/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40028/ <![CDATA[Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40016/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40016/ <![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39982/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39982/ <![CDATA[Truth does not contradict truth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40042/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40042/ <![CDATA[The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39864/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39864/ <![CDATA[Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39878/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39878/ <![CDATA[Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39989/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39989/ <![CDATA[An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2668/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2668/