It’s a horrible tragedy for us, but I’m pleased that we had such solid presence and response. I think it’s really going to make a difference.

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made...

I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside what Chase was on the outside. I always believed I was a happy...

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it’s over, you feel like you don’t have any bones left to hold you up.

That’s the most terrible thing about being a child; you’re convinced that it’s all your fault.” Lulu

TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that’s wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here.

It’s like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others; the way they strangle their dreams — often in the name of love.

It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.

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

The Hatfield tragedy was a terrible event for everyone involved. Lessons have been learnt and the rail industry has changed enormously for the better over the past five years.

Failure becomes success when it finds positive minds; Tragedy becomes melody when it lands in positive hands. With positivity, possibility is assured!

His life was a party which tragically came to an early end.

Because I want to know if I’m allowed to kiss your tears away. Because I want to be able to hold your hand. Because I like you.

I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well.

As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet...

She didn’t need friends; she needed to be a bigger bitch.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon.

Every normal family is one tragedy away from complete implosion.

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen...

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist’s shoes.

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

Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland, and yelled outLike syllable of dolor.

I don’t like feeling sorry for myself. That’s not who I am. And most of the time I don’t feel that way. Instead, I am grateful for having at least found you. We could have...

I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change!

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.

As a lord was heldfor the strength of his body and stoutness of heart.Much lore he learned, and loved wisdombut fortune followed him in few desires;oft wrong and awry what he wrought turned;what he loved...

If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.

Whenever I hear of someone else’s tragedy, I do not dwell on the accident or diagnosis, or even the initial shock waves or aftermath of grief. Instead, I find myself reconstructing those final ordinary moments....

Et voilà. Maintenant le ressort est bandé. Cela n’a plus qu’à se dérouler tout seul. C’est cela qui est commode dans la tragédie. On donne le petit coup de pouce pour que cela démarre, rien,...

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it’s true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of...

We’ve tried our best to draft the policy in a way so that Nigerian tragedy is not repeated in Bangladesh.

…this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

Time not only heals, time reveals

Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.

But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an...

Out of every tragedy, ” he said, “comes new strength.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man’s tragedy.

Die Welt ist nirgends außer diesen Mauern;Nur Fegefeuer, Qual, die Hölle selbst.Von hier verbannt, ist aus der Welt verbannt,Und solcher Bann ist Tod: Drum gibst du ihmDen falschen Namen. – Nennst du Tod Verbannung,Enthauptest du...

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is...

Today, a couple with ‘just married’ tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previouslydied in a car accident.

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

… the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both…

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me; didn’t know I’d relive them every day.Death would have been more merciful.