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“How tragic lives there are in this world! But there is a greater tragedy: People who have very hard lives often believe that they…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live…

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

“Everyone has tragedy in their life at one time or another, it’s how they deal with it that defines them.”

— Andrew Peterson

“We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.”

— Varlam Shalamov

“It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly…

— John Fowles

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“Such miserable creatures of circumstance are we all!”

— Thomas Hardy

“The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end…

— Anonymous

“we all have more than our share of pains and sorrow. Embarrassments and things that haunt us. From that, no one is ever immune,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

— Shirley Hazzard

“We are so lonely here, with only our loved ones for company. We kill, maim, insult our loved ones, or dream of doing so,…

— Jincy Willett

“One of the few comforts I have when looking at images of distant suffering is the hope that the starving child with flies on…

— Evan Wright