#tragedy

We pass through this world but once. 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

#hesitation #hope #life #tragedy #life

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#life #tragedy #life

I believe every abortion is a tragedy. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#believe #every #i #i believe #tragedy

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams. ↗

— David Mamet

#real_life #tragedy #dreams

Dear God, I hurt. Please hold me. Amen ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hurting #prayer #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sadness

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#great mind #mind #only #overthrown #tragedy

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#much #strict #teacher #too #tragedy

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. ↗

— Judy Collins

#avoids #being #had #heartache #i

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#biggest #daughter #disease #had #i

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#art #artist #became #cares #collapsed