#tragic

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#sad #sad-love #tragic #woe #love

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#disciple #love #missionary #tragic #love

Don’t hide what you have just because people tell you it’s not normal. I have known normal people…and guess what? They are as boring as hell... ↗

— Sidney Knight

#inspiration #inspirational #motivational #psychological #psychological-drama

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#had #happened #i #material #monumental

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#glorious #humour #life #make #moments

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#am #beginner #cetera #different #different parts

As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#campus #children #colleges #daughters #dorm

I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#did #direction #geek #i #i think

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. ↗

— Susan George

#accounts #arithmetic #because #crude #know