Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image ““People love a real tragedy when they think it cannot happen to them.”” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.” — Helen Klein Ross Copy Share Image
“Everyone has tragedy in their life at one time or another, it’s how they deal with it that defines them.” — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.” — Izzeldin Abuelaish Copy Share Image
“Tragedy did that—brought people together in ways you could never force.” — Nancy Naigle Copy Share Image
“You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else's tragedy - but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.” — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.” — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes a tragedy to make you realize there was so much you should have done differently.” — Chelsea Landon Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image