Tragedy Quotes - Page 11

• That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.

  J.R. Ward

  Scent, Lines

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.30, Penguin

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• Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Stitches, Bleeding

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.

  Holly Black

  Crush, Heart, Epic

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• At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

  Holly Black

  War, Mistake, One Day

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• I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots at JFK. I took that tour and met some conspiracy buffs, all of us standing at the gunman’s window and looking down to the spot where the motorcade passed. It’s right there below the window, an easy shot at a slow-moving car. No mystery, just a kid and a rifle and a tragedy. They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

  David Wong

  Moving, Book, Kids

  David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.422, Macmillan

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• I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

  John Green

  Loss, Finals, Goes On

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

  Francine Pascal

  Knowing Love, Dying, Would Be

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

  Pat Conroy

  Winning, Encounters, World

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

  T. H. White

  Innocence, Enough, Seems

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.276, Penguin

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• LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Body, Comedy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.548, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wise, Country, Dream

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• There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.” In other words, it is better to lose your life than to waste it. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. This is not a book about how to avoid a wounded life, but how to avoid a wasted life. Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Book, Joy

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• You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Happy Life, Thinking, Play

  Gary D. Schmidt (2007). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

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• tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Eye, Reality, Appreciate

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• That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

  Paul Fleischman

  Home, Garden, Circles

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• War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Fear, War

  "On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity".

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• It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Thoughtful, Loving Life

  Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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• In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Greatness, Men, Crisis

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• How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

  Vachel Lindsay

  Learning, Commitment, Students

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• Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crazy, Mad, Mountain

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• To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

  Cus D'Amato

  Sports, Men, Boxing

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• There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, War, Mean

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

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• I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.

  Oscar Arias

  Hate, Believe, Mean

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• Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Said Life, Years

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.898, Jazzybee Verlag

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