Tragedy Quotes

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good Silence People Oppression Bad People Good People Cruelty Bad Over Ultimate Tragedy
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good Silence History People Bad People Will Good People Clamor Bad Record Period Greatest Tragedy Social Transition Appalling
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this. Giles Andreae
Life Depression You People World Few Victim Nothing Believe Think Abandoned Only Feel Know Also Understand Tragedy Very Begin Few People Quite Painful Helpless Even Utterly Here
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin
Life Wise Too Late Old Too Late Soon Tragedy Get
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
Life Dark Fear Light Men Easily Real Tragedy Child Forgive Afraid Who
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. Isabel Allende
War Strength Survival People Strong Amazing Awesome Hidden Know Until Forced Renewal How Amazing Things Tragedy Times Human Human Capacity Capacity Forward Even Things Bring Necessity
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good. Josh McDowell
Death Future Good You Matter Promises Face Pain Our Immeasurable Temporary Only Struggles Resurrection Troubles Devastating Disappointments How Tragedy Loved Loved Ones Happens Depth Your
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats
Joy Sense Abide Temporary Through Had He Periods Him Saint Patrick's Day Tragedy Irish Being Sustained Which
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life Death Back Way Never Like Were Tragedy Child Get Things
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. Benjamin E. Mays
Life Failure Too Much Living Complacency Too Our Ability Above Rather Doing Tragedy Often Little Capacities Much Below
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way. Dalai Lama
Life Hope Strength Losing Challenge Thanks Meet Our Way Ways Find Able Habits Take Buddha Self-Destructive React Real Falling Been Tragedy Either Teachings Using Inner Second Two Inner Strength
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. Norman Cousins
Sad Life Death Man Yourself Men Feeling Pain Awareness Other Possible Response Inside Inspired He Feel Glory Makes Genuine Tragedy Dies While Lives
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. Robert Kennedy
Wisdom Live Living Tool Guide Tragedy Gain Which
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau
Silence Words About Misunderstanding Understood Tragedy Begins Human Intercourse
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. Richard Bach
Ignorance Injustice World Master Mark Caterpillar Calls Tragedy End End Of The World Depth Your Belief Butterfly
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. Adam Smith
Poverty Real Tragedy Poor Aspirations
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Oscar Wilde
Man Women Become All Women Like Does Mothers His Tragedy
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. Lee Strobel
Selfish Suffering Evil Arrogant Pain Moral Immorality Moral Evil Hateful Come Because Tragedy Choose
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
Death Man Statistic One-Man Tragedy Millions
It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for. Adam Grant
Life Thankful You Be Thankful More Through How Still Go Tragedy Ironic Realize Many Things Fragile Appreciate
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. Edward Abbey
War Home Enemies Men Young Fighting Other Back Instead Real Tragedy Die Modern Modern War Young Men Each
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. William Barclay
Life God World Men Insist Own Way Know Knowing Him Still Tragedy Going
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. Arthur C. Clarke
Religion History Entire Morality Hijacking Greatest Tragedy May Mankind
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. James Madison
Government Both Perhaps Without Tragedy Information Acquiring Means Farce Popular
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. Hypatia
Great Mind Miracles Pain Relieved Fables Only Poetic Superstitions Through He Myths Perhaps Most Terrible Terrible Thing Accepts Years Tragedy Truths Child Taught After Fantasies Them Should Teach Believes Thing
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead. Rose Kennedy
Life Work Challenge Life Is A Living Carry Must Dead Well Am Tragedy Mourn Going
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