Minor Tragedy Quotes

#1. Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

Elizabeth Bear

#2. The answer you seek lies in learning to combine the power of reason with the passion of emotion. If you let reason alone control your choices, you lose the power of intuition. If you let emotion control your choices, you will be a slave to every minor tragedy.

Roy Huff

#3. I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

Roald Dahl

#4. Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.

Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

#5. At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.

Jules Verne

#6. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

Eli Roth

#8. He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and evenly, and this, he knew, was for him a minor sort of tragedy.

William Styron

#9. O LORD, you have p searched me and known me! 2 You q know when I sit down and when I rise up; you r discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

Anonymous

#10. Did I get my picture in the yearbook under "Most Likely to Commit Suicide"?

Jerry Stahl

#11. First my husband, then my parents died. After that I lost my two sisters. When death comes to someone's home it's as if it wants to get as much done as quickly as possible to save coming again for a long time.

Guy De Maupassant

#12. If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

George Soros

#13. The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

Sandra Bullock

#14. All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

Jim Ramstad

#15. I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. There are ... many ... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#17. I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Joni Mitchell