#tragedies

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#gain #heart #life #lose #other

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#been #especially #family #following #give

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. ↗

— Aberjhani

#american-tragedies #antiracism #george-zimmerman #race-and-racism-in-america #racism

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

#deeper #denial #even #extensive #falsely

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me. ↗

— Judith Guest

#because #cards #courageous #deal #handed

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#ghosts #his #into #introduces #knowledge

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#brought #certainly #here #i #i am