#tragic

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#modern #modern technology #myth #mythology #science

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#life #tragic #weren #would

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#had #happened #i #material #monumental

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#compassion #courage #destroy #disaster #even

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#bear #children #could #death #east

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#aspect #come #contact #even #exaggerate

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#certain #certain point #fact #goes #idea

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#come #far #hope #hope and change #how

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#campus #children #colleges #daughters #dorm