Tragedy Quotes - Page 28

• It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Beautiful, Cities, Creating

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• For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Believe

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.

  Timothy Foote

  Memories, Powerful, Real

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• Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

  Martin Seligman

  Weather, Pessimist, Optimist

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.312, Vintage

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• When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people. Our Rapid Response Team exists so that people can find the care and comfort of Jesus Christ in the midst of tragedy.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Team, Grief

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• History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad peopleBut the appalling silence and indifference of the good.Our generation will have to repent notOnly for the words and actions of the children of darknessBut also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Children, Light

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• There are three sayings I live by, and one of them is 'The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.' That's what losing a job is like. That's why we have to bring them back.

  Ken Hendricks

  Jobs, Work, Men

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• You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Abuse, Criticism

  On literary criticism, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 409 (25 June 1763)

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• The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Death, Things In Life, Looks

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• Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Life And Death, Giving, Too Much

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• Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

  James Nachtwey

  Humane Way, Important, World

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• A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

  Louise Hay

  Way, Turns, Grows

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.53, Hay House, Inc

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• I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Optimism

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

  Chuck Close

  Suffering, Terrible, Happy Again

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• Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

  John Milton

  Letting Go, Divinity, Lines

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.425

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• This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

  Albert Claude

  Mother, Appreciation, Agony

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• Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

  Brennan Manning

  People, Attention, Might

  Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.81, Zondervan

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• My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

  Ed Markey

  Prayer, Cities, Marathon

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• In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken up by boutique owners (one of the fanciest clothes stores in London is called Che Guevara). There is no faster way of destroying a man or mocking his ideas than making him fashionable. That Che succeeded in influencing dress-designers was part of his tragedy.

  Paul Theroux

  Taken, Fate, Men

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• It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Despair, Modern, Modern Tragedy

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• So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage. And the tragedy of life is to fail in that test and so fail to qualify to return in glory to our heavenly home.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Home, Storm, Tests

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• This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Ignorance, Rights

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection against looking at the tragedy of it all. It's seeing life in balance. Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny, if seen from a comedic point of view.

  Harold Ramis

  School, Views, Balance

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Frustration, Men, History

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• The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowledge, and even for beauty is only a vain sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of one's clothes in a community of blind men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Believe, Heart, Fate

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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