Quote by Beatrice Sparks

“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.”

— Helen Klein Ross

“Sometimes it takes a tragedy to make you realize there was so much you should have done differently.”

— Chelsea Landon

“Everyone has tragedy in their life at one time or another, it’s how they deal with it that defines them.”

— Andrew Peterson

“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.”

— Michelle Richmond

“Tragedy did that—brought people together in ways you could never force.”

— Nancy Naigle

“People love a real tragedy when they think it cannot happen to them.”

— Roxane Gay

“You said, ‘Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.”

— Ha Jin

“I realize now that tragedy spares no one; it just courts each of us differently.”

— Gwendolyn M. Plano

“Sometimes a tragedy sends us down the path we’re supposed to be on so we can find what we’re meant to find. It isn’t…

— AnnaLisa Grant

“Tragedy is not deep and sharp if it can be shared with friend.”

— Varlam Shalamov

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Thus even tragedy can be accompanied by a trace of relief. The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.”

— Lionel Shriver