#tragedy

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera) ↗

— Gabriel García Márquez

#tragedy #death

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#eyes #greatness #tragedy #you #your

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#bothers #him #his #knows #less

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested. ↗

— Mike Honda

#during #never #sorely #tension #terrorism

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#asked #bush #did #get #lives

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#look #only #participate #tragedy

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#each #few #hundredths #luck #only

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ↗