#tragedy

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

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit! ↗

— Jean Webster

#hazards #laugh #spirit #tragedy #courage

A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending. ↗

— R.J. Gonzales

#death #loss #loss-of-a-baby #miscarriage #sad

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young. ↗

— John Webster

#jacobean-tragedy #murder #youth #death

Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen. ↗

— Steve Farrar

#death #tragedy #death

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy. ↗

— Thomas Kyd

#tragedy #death

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ↗

— Terri Garey

#tragedy #life

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life. ↗

— Henry Miller

#tragedy #equality

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary. ↗

— Tasha Alexander

#horror #numbness #terror #tragedy #experience

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#misfortune #optimism #tragedy #experience