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• What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

  Ronald J. Sider

  Christian, People, Ironic

  Ronald J. Sider (2015). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Real, Eye, Heart

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• The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

  Thomas Harris

  Dies

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Strong, Stress

  1898 The War of the Worlds, bk.1, ch.7.

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• Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Loss, Dark

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2016

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• In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

  Dennis Lehane

  Fall, Greek, Noir

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• But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .

  Dan Ariely

  Focus, Needs, Benefits

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• That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.

  Ben Sherwood

  Grief, Math, Two

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.267, Bantam

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• And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Needs, Platonic Love, Knows

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the questions. It's very hard if you are interested in ideas and all that, ideas and the philosophies of the past, it's very hard to find someone around here to really talk to. That's the tragedy of the thing really I mean, when you think about it. Certainly I can't find anyone around here to talk to anymore. And for a woman it's even harder you see. They can feel very trapped - because of the patriarchy. I do feel everyone needs to have these little chats now and then.

  Zadie Smith

  Philosophy, Mean, Past

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• The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

  Alice Munro

  Believe, Trying, World

  "Dear Life". Book by Alice Munro, 2012.

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• We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Native American, Destiny, Imagination

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• The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

  James Carlos Blake

  Men, Self Knowledge, Knows

  James Carlos Blake (2017). “The Friends of Pancho Villa: A Novel”, p.7, Grove Press

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• Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

  Holly Black

  Might, Firsts, Forget

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

  Orson Scott Card

  Imagination, Bed, Body

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.8, Macmillan

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• That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

  Agatha Christie

  Great Love, Stories, Love Story

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

  Carl Jung

  Distance, Men, Cocoons

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

  Raymond Chandler

  Beautiful, Mean, Young

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.302, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Old Friends, Affection, Hearty

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the freaking oppressive nature of tragedy or whatever but then never said what was wrong, never have any goddamned reason to be sad. And I just think you ought to have a reason. My girlfriend dumped me, so I'm sad. I got caught smoking, so I'm pissed off. My head hurts, so I'm cranky. She never had a reason, Pudge. I was just so tired of putting up with her drama. And I just let her go. Christ.

  John Green

  Girlfriend, Hurt, Drama

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• Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Sorrow

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• In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

  Dean Koontz

  Night, Light, Giving

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• Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Events, Social, Bigs

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.48, Penguin

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• You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand.

  Cassandra Clare

  Letting Go, Reading, Book

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• The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the trust that the life Jesus gives us is deeper, wider, stronger, and more enduring than whatever our current circumstances are, because all we see is not all there is and the last word about us and our struggle has not yet been spoken.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Struggle, Divorce

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