#tragedy

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. ↗

— Judy Collins

#avoids #being #had #heartache #i

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#been #between #comedy #discomfort #drawn

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera) ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#tragedy #death

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#effort #situation #talent #tragedy #without

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. ↗

— Arthur E. Morgan

#almost #feel #greatest #important #lack

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#emotions #life #perspective #thinking #tragedy

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#human-nature #humanity #repetition #tragedy #age

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone. ↗

— James Lovegrove

#pain #past #suffering #tragedy #age

I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy and a tragic attitude toward tragedy — why I had become identified with the objects of my horror or compassion. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sadness #tragedy #attitude

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy. ↗

— Mo Yan

#tragedy #beauty