1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

When good leaders suffer; people show empathy, but when bad leaders suffer, people throw party.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Pain makes you fearless.

I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.

I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family.” She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. “You still have a family,” she whispers.

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.

If only he loved himself as much as he loved the rest of the world.