Tragedies Quotes
246 quotes by 205 authors
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No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies; love for those…
— Pope John Paul II
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You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the…
— Al Gore
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
— C.S. Lewis
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O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
— William Shakespeare
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Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and…
— Barack Obama
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity…
— Lester R. Brown
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an…
— Jean Genet
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such…
— Richard Dawkins
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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
— Alan Cumming
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Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
— Charlton Heston
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This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof…
— Newt Gingrich
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Peace is not just safety or lack of war, violence, conflict and contention. Peace comes from knowing that the Savior knows who we are, knows…
— Quentin L. Cook
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Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
— Keith Ablow
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The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or…
— Valzhyna Mort
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