#tragedy

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences. ↗

— David Gemmell

#dramatist-quotes #inspirational-quotes #tragedy #inspirational

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. ↗

— James Baldwin

#inexorable #life #limits #mysterious #need

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin. ↗

— Lake Bell

#fat #female #find #get #hilarious

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good. ↗

— John Fowles

#hitler #tragedy #war #courage

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. ↗

— Kelsey Grammer

#compromise #day-to-day #deep #mishaps #really

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#man #never #quite #tragedy

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect. ↗

— Walter Hagen

#how #matter #missing #putt #respect

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#happiness #life #light #loss #tragedy

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. ↗

— Jonas Salk

#cast #could #i #knew #me

I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent? ↗

— Carolyn Custis James

#christianity #god #hesed #jesus #pain