Alan Lightman Quotes About Tragedy

Quotes about: Tragedy

• The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

  Alan Lightman

  Pain, Past, Joy

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.42, Vintage

• The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

  Alan Lightman

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Past

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.42, Vintage

• The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

  Alan Lightman

  Happiness, Pain, Joy

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.42, Vintage

• I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

  Alan Lightman

  Real, Sadness, Thinking

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

• I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Tragedy, Diagnosis

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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