Experience Quote by Sissy Spacek

They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.

— Kendra Wilkinson

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

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces…

— James Belushi

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

— Sam Shepard

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the…

— E. Lockhart

Tragedy struck the family when I was 10 days old. My eldest brother was killed in a car accident. He was six. My grandmother…

— Sofia Helin

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

When something traumatic has happened in your family, you're immediately empathetic to many, many comparable situations of loss.

— Jason Watkins

There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.

— Derek Walcott

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

Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace…

— Judith Martin