#tragedy

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#tragedy

Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#dreams

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening... ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#adventure #drama #expedition #tragedy #drama

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#insanity #parents #tragedy #faith

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #i love #john #love #marriage

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#broadcast #could #country #crisis #david

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#comedy #cut #die #fall #finger

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#expect #help #hurt #systems #tragedy

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. ↗

— Angela Carter

#age #certain #certain age #every #female

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. ↗

— Angela Carter

#happens #other #people #tragedy