#erin

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#cost #crime #death #defeat #even

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do. ↗

— Margaret Forster

#adored #fell #heights #i #love

We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#benefits #citizens #ensure #entering #going

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#cruel #hearts #order #other #our

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#call #honorable #i #i believe #incomparable

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#central #children #christians #clear #composed

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#always #book #director #flattering #happens

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze. ↗

— George Vancouver

#attention #being #breeze #considering #continued

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#housed #magazine #many #opinions #philosophies

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#flattering #image #most #stuck