“Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.” ComedyImagineSadnessHarderTragedyWineConsistently Author:Bernard Malamud
“All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.” EndsImagineReturnTragedyPassagesPassage Of Time Book:Lectures on Philosophy Source: Lectures on Philosophy
“Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.” ShouldHas BeensMightWantedJoyTurnsJesusFeltDifficultMy OwnLordImagineEventsSorrowBenefitsTragedyContraryThis LifeShockUnexpectedGoing AwayProvidenceApostlesSetbackDepartureFathomBewildermentInscrutable Author:Patrick Madrid
“I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.” KnowsDoneImagineTragedyGreat ThingsGreat Tragedy Author:Dave Grohl
“Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.” IfsHappensPainNextEasyImaginationAnswersActingImagineDangerConflictCreaturesEatingTragedyThreatTheatreWitAriseApplesSmarter Book:Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance Source: Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance
“Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.” AmericaFilmLanguageImaginePossibilityIndustryRight NowTragedyReleaseLandscapeCinemaLatinImpossibilityAsianLatin AmericaForeign LanguageLatin American Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveLongI BelieveRoomsLordImaginePlansStagePeriodsEuropeTragedyPreparedObviousStoresSpiteGroceriesProfileDoubtedLockersGrocery StoresLong Periods Of TimeLocker RoomPersonal Tragedy Author:Kurt Warner
“Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?” IfsWarPoliticsImagineGenerationsTragedySentencesDebateAvoidedWebsite Author:Eugene Mirman