The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms ...

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

People really feed on someone else's tragedies or problems.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas.

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

It's one of the tragedies of the modern university that it offers little space to generalists.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I've done two Shakespeare tragedies, so I'd desperately like to do comedy. It would be nice not to die.

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

I haven't had too many tragedies in my family where there has been a loss or even an accident. I've been lucky in that sense.

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.

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