Tragedy Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

  Myles Munroe

  Watches, Life Is, Untapped Potential

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Purpose for Living”, p.16, Destiny Image Publishers

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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 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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• I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

  Alison Bechdel

  Drama, Parent, Relief

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

  Gavin Extence

  Mixtures, Want, Comedy

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• If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

  James Lee Burke

  Skins, Who We Are, Forget

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• ..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

  Richelle Mead

  Sage, Skinny, Calories

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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• The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, People, Lapses

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.137, Broadway Books

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• When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Running, Book, Long

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.273, Serpent's Tail

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• If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Ideas, Bye

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• Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

  Eustace Haydon

  Time, Stars, Triumph

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• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Triumph, May

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Imagination, Experience, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

  Abraham Verghese

  Children, Years, Meaning Of Life

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• People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Pain, People, Monsters

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.191, Penguin

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• Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

  Karen White

  Kindness, Opportunity, Giving

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.95, Penguin

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• Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Grief, Grieving, Lasts

  Elizabeth McCracken (2008). “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here." Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. "God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it?" Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Zsadist, Boots

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• The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

  James Patterson

  Grief, Loss, Ideas

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• Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

  Thomas Moore

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Loss

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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