1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

The shining light of Logres shone as high and clear as ever, but as a candle flares before it gutters out.

Want to hear a joke? Life is beautiful.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

Dear God,I hurt. Please hold me.Amen

The jet-fuel smell thick in the air, the flame and smoke surrounding you, you can only get to 011 and that's enough to make you foreign, to make you other, to make you Mexican. You take out your wallet and put an ID between your teeth so they can find you when it all collapses. Your flesh may burn but your teeth will remain and the ID will be there. It's a fake ID. Nobody will ever know you died. Nobody will ever know you lived.

When someone dies on the other side of the world, it’s as if he’s been killed in a war or a shipwreck. Our eyes couldn’t see the dead man. There was no funeral, no ritual. Nothing. Just a telegram, a letter.

Crying can be done quietly. It can be done without anyone knowing.

It is both tragic and strange that people do not value every breath, every smile and every act of love. Life is fleeting, and very much taken for granted.

Catastrophe alone sparks man’s salvation. I don’t mean in the religious sense, although I guess it is appropriate there, too, because believers agree that salvation comes only after death. It is part of the human near-tragedy that we learn more from loss than from gain. Gain binds us until we stumble and fall into that black pit then we find the spirit of understanding and truth. And if we fall far enough and still persist, we find our salvation.