Tragedy Quotes - Page 27

• The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life
  walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the
  same economic situation, the same national background and
  education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all
  humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our
  restricted and impoverished lives.

  Florence Luscomb

  Religious, Wall, Lying

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• Only when we fix our gaze on the heavenly things do we begin to understand the eternities. Only with the help of Christ can we fully overcome tragedy. It is necessary to develop our faith in Him as the Redeemer of the world. He taught us: “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

  Carlos H. Amado

  Cheer, Taught Us, Overcoming

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• Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

  Del Close

  Laughter, Possibility, Midst

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• One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Interesting, Facts

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• Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

  Michael C. Hall

  Broken Heart, Children, Ends

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• One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.

  Barbara Demick

  Thousand

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.106, Granta

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• At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Bullying, Teaching

  "Confronting Cyber Violence in the Digital Age" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to die for.
  The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in
  tragedy.

  Cyprian Norwid

  Drama, Should Have, Two

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• Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

  John Guare

  Comedy, Humiliation, Avoiding

  John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.5, The Overlook Press

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• 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 the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Pain, Struggle, Men

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.5, Regnery Publishing

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• I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

  Gen Urobuchi

  Happiness, Writing, Heart

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• Your tragedy is God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

  Jim George

  Opportunity, Faithful, Shows

  Jim George (2006). “The Bare Bones Bible® Handbook: 10 Minutes to Understanding Each Book of the Bible”, p.41, Harvest House Publishers

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• Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenaged boys bloodied and dead. Handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws. tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation, rather than avoiding it.

  Jason Whitlock

  Boys, Car, Safety

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game". www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly -unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive resist.

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Names, World

  "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World". Book by James Davison Hunter, 2010.

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• In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Drama, Ideas, Path

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• Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Ghost, Witch, Introducing

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• When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Roots, Done, Way

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• I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Memories, Collective Memory

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• The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Born, Aim

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one side or the other, we're taken by surprise. But who said there wouldn't be surprises? Knowing God just means that all the rules will be fair; at the end of our life drama, we'll see that. We never know how things will turn out, but if we know with certainty they will make sense regardless of how they turn out, we're on to something.

  Barbara Johnson

  Life, Hurt, Laughter

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took for granted suddenly disappear, we have a very simple choice. We can either succumb to despair and assume the attitude of the put upon victim, powerless to change our fate, or we can decide to turn the tragedy into an opportunity.

  Tony Clark

  Attitude, Real, Fate

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• We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But, it is wearing you out.That is why I say the tragedy that is facing mankind is not AIDS or cancer, but Alzthiemer's disease.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Dream, Cancer, Identity

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• Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Life, Laughter

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• To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason . . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.

  David Quammen

  Loss, Rivers, Water

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Law, People, Benefits

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