Tragedy Quotes - Page 19

• [New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as the character of the people who live here will not be altered by this tragedy.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Character, Essence

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• This terrible tragedy.... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity.

  Vladimir Putin

  Struggle, Community, Challenges

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• France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand by the American people. We express our friendship and solidarity in this tragedy.

  Jacques Chirac

  People, Upset, September 11

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• That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to instill a democracy in Iraq which will be an example and perhaps force other nations in that region to move in the same direction.

  John McCain

  Moving, Mean, Loss

  "McCain: We will win this conflict easily". Interview With Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. January 22, 2003.

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• We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.

  Rob Brezsny

  Media, Space, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.66, Frog Books

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• Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

  Max Mayfield

  Preparation, Survival, Preparedness

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• The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sex, Soul, Intercourse

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick, an advocate for our domestic-violence shelter at the YWCA, was killed in her home by a man doing handiwork in her apartment complex. That one of my greatest advocates could fall victim to something she fought against her whole life was a tragedy that moved me to action.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Fall, Home, Men

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• The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

  Deepak Chopra

  Failure, Home, Media

  "The Greatest Crisis in the World" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2005.

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• The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

  Kenneth Lay

  Failure, July, Doe

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• Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving On, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 02, 2011

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• All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Suffering

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• The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

  Josephine Tey

  Children, People, News

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stupid, Men, Soul

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.302, Grove Press

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• This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Hurt, Parent, Trying

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.24, Random House

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• Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Evil, Optimism, World

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• And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.

  Vasily Grossman

  Grief, Men, People

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.17, Random House

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• Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

  William Gaddis

  Heart, Drawing, Hands

  William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”

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• The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people...The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world...Only the branch of the young shall survive...They have to accept it.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Fate, Dust, Europe

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• Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

  Paul Tillich

  Men, Together, Glory

  Paul Tillich (2012). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Understanding, Different

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• In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Memories, Years, Numbers

  Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Lydia Maria Child (2017). “Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten – The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents & Influential Novels: The Underground Railroad, Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, 12 Years a Slave, Uncle Tom's Cabin, History of Abolitionism, Lynch Law, Civil Rights Acts, New Amendments and much more”, p.1455, e-artnow

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• I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy—for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Strong, Mean, Opportunity

  Penelope Fitzgerald (2009). “A House of Air”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• The commission had to subpoena the F.A.A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full story. That is one of the tragedies. One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up.

  Max Cleland

  White, America, Issues

  "'The White House Has Played Cover-Up'–Former 9/11 Commission Member Max Cleland Blasts Bush". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 23, 2004.

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