Tragedies Quotes

“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

“Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. ”
― Joan Lowery Nixon, In the Face of Danger

“It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.”
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

“In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.”
― Richelle Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“There's a growing trade in fakes, you know. Does that concern you? He paused, but he didn't seem surprised not to get an answer. I've never seen one - well, as far as I know - but I'm curious. Could one really tell the difference? Novels, they call them. They must be much cheaper to produce. You can copy them, you see. use the same story over and over, and as long as you're careful how you sell them, you can get away with it. It makes one wonder who would write them. People who enjoy imagining misery, I suppose. People who have no scruples about dishonesty. People who can spend days writing a long sad lie without going insane.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“Our Cross

Our little circle hides in the mind,
It's difficult to miss but hard to find,
It goes unspoken but yet it speaks,
From backward years to forward weeks,
We can't forget but why even try,
Two of a kind doesn't know goodbye,
It's a silent question that God won't share,
A breeze we feel but seems unfair,
Distant, rare but only madness can see,
It's something deeper than any infinity,
Because we walk this parallel path up and down,
There is no circle to hold us circus clowns,
So let's give it a symbol and label it a loss,
We will remember it always as we carry our cross.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Like the other faithful men who stayed in Israel, Boaz endured the famine. Long before our birth, millions faced tragedies—without a word—because they busied themselves with solutions.
Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 46”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material

“So many mistakes. So many bad choices. So many tragedies and hurts brought to innocent people with the best of intentions or with no intentions at all. It was so hard to be human. It was so hard to be alive.”
― Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match

“We may not always understand the why. But we can trust the Who.”
― Jennifer Spredemann

“Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.”
― Warren Gamaliel Harding

“You can't unwrite the tragedies life engraves into your bones; you can just give them a voice.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Perhaps not having experienced any tragedy is also a kind of tragedy because tragedies are one of the important ways to understand life at the highest level!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We cannot predict our tragedies.”
― Kelli Russell Agodon, Dialogues with Rising Tides

“Tragedies are fucked at the box office," the executive said.

Sherwin didn't know if that was true. It didn't feel true. Or maybe it was truer than Sherwin wanted to believe. Weren't Americans afraid of tragedy?”
― Sherman Alexie, War Dances

“I imagined myself as a beautiful Cassandra, wandering vast and lonely halls, spilling prophecies that everyone laughed at, only to watch them come tragically true in the end. This feeling of mutedness, of injustice, was particularly strong in me, though I had no particular prophecies to tell, no clear-sighted warnings.”
― Lauren Groff, Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

“The pressure of past tragedies drove him forward - the need to escape reminders of his losses, and the desire to be somewhere other than where he'd been. That, and a smoldering desire for revenge.”
― Cinda Williams Chima

“Until a tragedy touches you, you will never be able to fully understand what life really is!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Nightlife is filled with personal tragedies.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“It was a terrible thing sure, but we live in a world that had no shortage of terrible things. You can't stop all of them.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Classes will continue as normal.”
― Nathan Nish, Branching Chaos

“...there are certain tragedies from which we never recover. We may eventually adjust to the sense of loss that pervades every waking hour of the day. We may accept the desperate sadness that colors all perception. We may even learn to live with the loss. But it doesn't mean we will ever fully cauterize the wound or shut away the pain in some steel-tight box and consider it vanquished.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Woman in the Fifth

“But to me, what the Greeks knew and what these other ancient authors, I think, tapped into is something we’re only now finding words to articulate again, which is that betrayal is the wound that cuts the deepest. You can call it whatever you want, moral distress, moral injury, but really, it’s betrayal — feeling abandoned or betrayed, or betraying oneself and one’s sense of what’s right. And so we had respiratory therapists in some of our early performances during the pandemic, who were saying, “I have 20 patients on respirators in the public hospital in the Bronx, and there’s only me, and I’m left with the guilt of not being able to attend to them all.”

That’s an impossible situation. So you call that person a hero, when they’re wrestling with their own sense of betraying their own standards of care and being betrayed by the system that put them in that position, and it could actually hurt them.”
― Bryan Doerries

“The grave tragedies we’ve experienced can help motivate us
to unite for a better world.”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

“In the darkness I fall prey to the twin tragedies of never seeing the path sufficiently to ever find it, and mistaking darkness for light so that wandering becomes mistaken for destiny. And in it all, a single word from God obliterates both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Writing with a purpose”
― Hannah Oswine , Poetically, Therapeutically, Spiritually, Dancing Your Way Out of Despair: Overcoming Trauma

“I slept in the closet that night. Paranoia and a wild imagination had me picturing a drunken man tearing into my bedroom with an automatic weapon, screaming like a lunatic while blasting holes in my mattress until fluffs of padding flew everywhere and no sleeping child could possibly be left breathing.
The closet just felt safer.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

“When you aren’t loved, you aren’t real. Life is cold, like the stone against my palm.

I suppose that’s why I first turned to books. I engrossed myself in them once discovered—creatively assembled words that molded imagined stories in my head. They were always so vivid, these kind characters in pretend worlds. People and places that also weren’t real. I imagined I loved them. And sometimes, I dreamt that they loved me back.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

“Living was a tug of war, and dying was a piece of cake.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia