Eras Quote by James Lee Burke

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

— D. H. Lawrence

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

— Robert Breault

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So,…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

— Tara Brach

There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.

— George W. Bush

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.

— Rene Girard

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit…

— Queen Elizabeth II

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is…

— Paulo Coelho

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

— Brennan Manning

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

— Patrick Marber

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning…

— Robin Roberts