#tragedy

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#born #courage #earth #every #grow

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#lasts #love #tragedy

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#american #divided #europe #into #leaving

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #coexist #hiroshima #humanity #japan

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#divorce #even #even worse #people #same

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#million #statistic #tragedy

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#being #being misunderstood #misunderstood #poet #through

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#guide #live #living #tool #tragedy

I think art can reflect tragedy. ↗

— John Corigliano

#i #i think #reflect #think #tragedy

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every