#tragedy

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#feminism #freedom #patriarchy #third-wave-feminism #tragedy

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions. ↗

— Maryrose Wood

#greek-tragedy #humor #reading #humor

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#men #tragedy #women #love

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

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see. ↗

— Kedar Joshi

#life #tragedy #life

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#tragedy #love

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetic-prose #tragedy #love

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#tragedy #perspective

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn't burned down, you don't have cancer, and your daughter hasn't been raped or murdered. The bad news is that I ran over your dog. And your son. And his wife. But not before I ran out of gas to achieve all of that. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bad-news #crazy #death #family #good-news