Tragedy Quotes - Page 7

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.

Human spirit needs music.
Music nourish the soul to survive life's trauma.

Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the rising sun.

It is difficult to move on when your surroundings stay the same.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

I have hunger.

Women want respect but are let down by those of them who don't respect themselves. Several men use this as an excuse to disrespect women. We are born with this as the norm and not a tragedy!

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

...it struck her, this was tragedy- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.

It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit!

Suffering is the fire by which love is tested.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.