Quotes of: Great-tragedy Keyword

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

The Glass Rainbow

What you think to be a tragedy id God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

The Bare Bones Bible Handbook: 10 Minutes to Understanding Each Book of the Bible

Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.

The Book of Broken Hearts

Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.

Beautiful

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laug...

Robert Webb

I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

Atlas Shrugged

How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much.

Is Journalism Worth Dying For? Final Dispatches

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

Intercourse

This is why some relationships look so beautiful and some look so tragic — beauty belongs to the thoughtful; tragedy to the neglectful.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

Mansfield Park

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.

Life and Fate

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

The Spanish Tragedy

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

The Storyteller

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy.  If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

If others in the same Glass better see 'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe.

Oedipus: A Tragedy

Whatever is, is in its causes just; But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link; His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.

Oedipus: A Tragedy

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

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 a comedy.

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their small sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

When I run the world,librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves