#tragedy

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#great mind #mind #only #overthrown #tragedy

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#also #because #came #could #crazy

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. ↗

— Angela Carter

#age #certain #certain age #every #female

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. ↗

— Angela Carter

#happens #other #people #tragedy

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#believe #give #life #love #ready

I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside what Chase was on the outside. I always believed I was a happy person with a sad soul. I felt like I had had tragedy in my life when I hadn’t. Somehow, without having experienced what he had, his scars resonated with me. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#happy-person #love #pain #sad #sad-soul

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ↗

— Plato

#child #dark #easily #forgive #life

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened. ↗

— Harold S. Kushner

#forgiveness

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