1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?

I respect and reverence you, dear father-in-law, I wish I had chosen death rather than following your son, leaving behind my bridal chamber, my beloved daughter, my dear childhood friends and my kin. But I did not, and I pine away in sorrow.

Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on graves.

Life is filled with overwhelming tragedy, but it's also filled with incomparable beauty. I read somewhere that god doesn't come to us in the happy times. He comes to us through our scars and wounds.

Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.

Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead.

My lungs are filled with the kind of oxygen that pumps words and that’s my fuel.

Although it may be phenomenally difficult to ferret out at times, there is always something that I can appreciate in every tragedy that befalls me. And despite how small that bit of appreciation might be, if I start with that I will find that I am winning the battle before I ever start fighting it.

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone.