Fence Quote by John Boyne

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

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean,…

— Rudy Giuliani

Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw…

— Dan Eldon

“The important thing to remember is that even if survivors stayed broken for the rest of their lives, the abusers do not. They are…

— Shannon Thomas

“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very…

— Bora Chung

“In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from…

— Jonathan Larson

After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am…

— Tony Blair

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

— Fred D'Aguiar

I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness…

— Pamela Moore

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

— Gregory Maguire