Americans refused to see accidents as accidental. They did not comprehend they while tragedy always exacts a formidable price, it rarely incurs a debt.

This is not solely a response to the tragedy in the Gulf; it is the result of the increasing evidence that FEMA should not be hindered by a top-heavy bureaucracy when needed to act swiftly...

Your heart doesn’t think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn’t consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks.

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough

TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.Do you know who your parents are? Unknowingyou are enemy to kith and kinin death, beneath...

So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one...

Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of DenmarkIs by a forged process of my deathRankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy...

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of...

is the culmination of all disasters!

Life is an adventurous story filled with triumph and tragedy.

It seemed to him that life’s true tragedy was to lift up one’s voice among the living and be met with indifference.

Waiters and quitters have a little difference; quitters begin well but do not finish it; waiters do not begin it at all. Don’t be part of their tragedy. Go, make it happen now!

I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer – but yours! How can I?

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that’s...

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

There is tragedy all around us, we pick up pieces, we find our feet and before long another turn of events stare us in the eyes; like we’re some kind of magician- the fight seems...

Bu dünyanın trajedileri, engin okyanusların fırtınaları gibi davranırlar! Bu fırtınanın içindeyken, zihnin bir deniz feneri gibi dimdik dursun!

Closing your eyes won’t make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head – doesn’t this feed the monster?...

zoom lens effect,” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations.

her heart was the defendant,in the court waiting for the last decision and the judge was th mind.is it the end of love

There’s a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they’ll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn’t someone. And...

Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey–searching for Jesus.

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean...

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

the undiscovered self”; being alive without knowing why.

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

Believe in love, Believe in yourself, and Believe we make our own destiny.

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d’etats on the state of irrational optimism

The human race has the capacity to render itself extinct unless alternatives are found to the patterns of intraspecific warfare that have dominated civilized history. Ours has long been a predatory species. Living, for humans,...

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that’s the soul seeking...

Life is a mystical and tragic thing. It is a journey often full of fear, when it ought to be full of hope. It’s fascinating to look back on your life and feel as though...

If we could only get rid of consciousness. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal...

For me was the Holocaust not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I...

Tell her I’m sorry I sold the diamond, eh?” Sammy said. “I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska… ah, so long ago, I finally used that diamond, moved to Texas as I always...

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

O honorable strumpet

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young – and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the...

This tragedy didn’t hit Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It hit America.

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

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers. Education...

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look...

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...

It is a great tragedy when a young child loses a parent, as Elian did during his trip to the United States, … But it is an equal tragedy for any parent to face the...

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is...

If the sky falls, there’ll be a bigger sky behind it.

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible...