Alive Quote by Dave Eggers

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

— Ntozake Shange

We are a very, very unusual species.

— Richard Dawkins

We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

This is a tragic world we live in.

— Hans Koning

We live very ordinary lives.

— Bob Mortimer

“Over the years, I have developed a visceral reaction to families and victims expressing surprise at tragedy. Why are we surprised? Why do we…

— Michael Perry

We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride…

— David Harbour

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

— Tracy Kidder

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

— Anonymous

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

— Shin Kyung-sook

We live in an extraordinary time

— Fernando Flores

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are…

— Maya Angelou