“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”

— Dorothy Parker

Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes." by Dorothy Parker?

Dorothy Parker photo

Dorothy Parker172

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

Related quotes

“It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.”

Miguel de Unamuno book San Manuel Bueno, Mártir

San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (1933), Prologue

“But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.”

Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer

“Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

“Now I'm standing alone in a crowded room
And we're not speaking.
And I'm dyin' to know:
Is it killing you
Like it's killing me?
Yeah.
I don't know what to say since a twist of fate, when it all broke down
And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.”

Taylor Swift (1989) American singer-songwriter

The Story of Us.
Song lyrics, Speak Now (2010)

“The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Evil Thirst

“To use tragedy to sow division is the hallmark of a despot.”

Dan Rather (1931) Journalist, Anchor

Rather's Facebook page, 6 February 2018 https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/

Related topics