#tragic

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

Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All the while, Signý, caged in his dungeons, hearing all the painful details of his life with someone else, drowning in her own despair, her love for him turning to hatred. A more tragic life, she could not imagine. ↗

— Farrah Naseem

#despair #farrah-naseem #hatred #sacred #tragic

That’s what I’m trying, sir… getting my life. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#sadness #tragic #life

Nostalgia, while feeling in vibe quite similar to love, is always at best detached, thus a little tragic. ↗

— Jake Wilson

#nostalgia #tragic #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

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. ↗

— Henry Adams

#been #effect #had #poison #power

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death. ↗

— George P. Baker

#come #death #elizabethan #ending #far

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

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#been #billion #choose #entertained #entry