Air Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of…

— Karen Russell

The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see…

— A. C. Bradley

Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when…

— Aristotle

Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its…

— Alain de Botton

“The instant of a great disaster, it is often said, is an elongated one. As if in witnessing its own demise the human mind…

— Tiffany Baker

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled…

— Bertrand Russell

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

— Criss Jami

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain people and insist that they descend.

— Anonymous

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost…

— Whittaker Chambers