#tragedy

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself. ↗

— Amy Denise

#hardship #love #military #romance #tragedy

I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside what Chase was on the outside. I always believed I was a happy person with a sad soul. I felt like I had had tragedy in my life when I hadn’t. Somehow, without having experienced what he had, his scars resonated with me. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#happy-person #love #pain #sad #sad-soul

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#men #tragedy #women #love

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hesitation #hope #life #tragedy #life

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#life #tragedy #life

Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#poetry #tragedy #life

The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad. ↗

— Bella Pollen

#tragedy #life

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. ↗

— Sholom Aleichem

#comedy #dream #fool #game #life is a

Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#dreams

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening... ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#adventure #drama #expedition #tragedy #drama