If everyone is a
If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It’s only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning. Gao Xingjian
Tragedy
Every life is a
Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer’s life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down. Gabrielle Roy
Tragedy is when someone
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say. Gabrielle Zevin
Somebody said that I
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. Ezra Pound
There are few things
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. Ezra Pound
Only with gun violence
Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that’s unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn’t ‘too soon.’ It’s much too late. … Read more
The tragedy wasn’t that
The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived. Evelyn Nesbit
This is the real
This is the real tragedy of America’s ‘Internet freedom agenda’: It’s going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning. Evgeny Morozov
There are only three
There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can’t be experienced unless you’ve had cocaine. … Your brain will settle into a … Read more
I’m drawn to a
I’m drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think – I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don’t know if I could survive, like, Medea. Eva Mendes