"Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it." ― Jean Anouilh Topic(s): Hope More From Jean Anouilh "It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base." "Things are beautiful if you love them." "Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it." More In Hope "Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he’d say the same about me."― Ellen Barkin "Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."― Thomas Merton "Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."― Percy Bysshe Shelley