1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

It scared me, that the only thing between this moment of calm and the biggest tragedy of my life was me choosing not to do it. That really tripped me out, that everyone's life was that precarious, that there wasn't some all knowing mechanism in place that stopped things that shouldn't happen from happening. That's something that always scared me.

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong, that's celebration.

Many people are the cause of their own misfortune in life, and they either blame the devil for it or hang it on God.

Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us.

Jun Do had dealt with this his whole life, the ways it was impossible for people from normal families to conceive of a man in so much hurt that he couldn’t acknowledge his own son, that there was nothing worse than a mother leaving her children, though it happened all the time, that “take” was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.

You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation; you simply need a plan.

The real tragedy in life is a lack of desire for the love of the truth.

You his brother?''Yes, damn it!' I burst out. "And all I want is to get my hands on whoever did this to him!''Funny,' said a dick dryly, 'but so do we.'I didn't like him much after that. Sarcasm is out of place when a man has just been brought face to face with personal tragedy.("Walls That Hear You")