#tragedy

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#even #i #shakespeare #tragedy #trained

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. ↗

— Susan Cain

#introversion #sensitivities #tragedy

That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#sadness #tragedy #tragedy

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#tragedy

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#bad people #cruelty #good #good people #oppression

Human tragedies: We all want to be extraordinary and we all just want to fit in. Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in. ↗

— Sebastyne Young

#fitting-in #talent #tragedy

Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all. ↗

— Edward Morris

#love #tragedy #family

Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost. ↗

— Barry B. Powell

#experience

The sun loved the moon so much he died every night so she could breathe. ↗

— Unknown

#devotion #love #moon #sacrifice #sun

Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us. ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#love #rejection #tragedy #love