#tragic

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#learn #more #painful #part #though

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots. ↗

— Wendy Cope

#better #good #happy #happy life #i

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#country #every #land #like #palestine

Her life has seen little light. She is twelve years old but has a woman’s weathered poise. Her abyss-blue eyes have a piercing focus that some adults find unsettling. [...] She has fired a gun into a human head. She has watched a pile of bodies set alight. She has starved and thirsted, stolen food and given it away, and glimpsed the meaning of life by watching it end over and over. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#dystopia #tragic #food

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could. ↗

— From Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag

#love

To live an eternity in hell without one’s love. He supposed that could be perceived as somewhat vexing. ↗

— Rosanna Leo

#love

between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always, though, while tripping and stumbling to the music, she looks out into her audience and tells the story about her mother. Most people laugh and yell for her to lift her skirts, but every so often she'll spot someone weeping and swear they can understand her every word. ↗

— David Sedaris

#sad #tragic #unaware #music

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bit #figure #get #happened #i

I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long. ↗

— Ed Belfour

#family #greats #him #his #i

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. ↗

— Walt Disney

#classrooms #crowded #greatest #minds #national