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1 " Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial. "
― Warren G. Harding
2 " That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous. "
3 " In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life. "
― James Weldon Johnson , The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
4 " Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can choose how we want them to change us. "
― Nikki Rowe
5 " With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. "
― Virginia Woolf , Mrs. Dalloway
6 " In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the alter, a couple would speak thus: " We accept not to panic when, some years from now, what we are doing today will seem like the worst decision of our lives. Yet we promise not to look around, either, for we accept that there cannot be better options out there. Everyone is always impossible. We are a demented species." After the solemn repetition of the last sentence by the congregation, the couple would continue: " We will endeavor to be faithful. At the same time, we are certain that never being allowed to sleep with anyone else is one of the tragedies of existence. We apologize that our jealousies have made this peculiar but sound and non-negotiable restriction very necessary. We promise to make each other the sole repository of our regrets rather than distribute them through a life of sexual Don Juanism. We have surveyed the different options for unhappiness, and it is to each other we have chosen to bind ourselves." Spouses who had been cheated upon would no longer be at liberty furiously to complain that they had expected their partner to be content with them alone. Instead they could more poignantly and justly cry, " I was relying on you to be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness which our hard-won marriage represents." Thereafter, an affair would be a betrayal not of intimate joy but of a reciprocal pledge to endure the disappointments of marriage with bravery and stoic reserve. "
7 " The only way to see true reality is in solitude. One of the tragedies of human existence is that reality cannot be shared. What's real to you may not be to someone else. "
8 " Where is God when it hurts? We know one answer because God came to earth and showed us. You need only follow Jesus around and note how he responded to the tragedies of his day: large-scale tragedies such as an act of government terrorism in the temple or a tower collapsing on eighteen innocent bystanders; as well as small tragedies, such as a widow who has lost her only son or even a Roman soldier whose servant has fallen ill. At moments like these Jesus never delivered sermons about judgment or the need to accept God’s mysterious providence. Instead he responded with compassion – a word from Latin which simply means, “to suffer with” – and comfort and healings. God stands on the side of those who suffer. (pp.27-28/What Good Is God?) "
― Philip Yancey , What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
9 " Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures. "
― Bryant McGill , Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
10 " Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. "
― Elizabeth McCracken
11 " Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
12 " It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. "
― Susan Cain , Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
13 " For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless. "
― Sean S Kamali
14 " For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless. "
― Sean Kamali
15 " So it ever must be in the conflicting scenes of life, in the long, weary march, each one walks alone. We may have many friends, love, kindness, sympathy and charity, to smooth our pathway in everyday life, but in the tragedies and triumphs of human experience, each mortal stands alone. "
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
16 " One of the tragedies of current Christianity in America is that we have so few compelling illustrations of this life that Jesus lived and the type of radical community he came to create. Leading pastors and preachers are little more than family-friendly celebrities or game show hosts with all the razzle-dazzle and mass media presence that accompanies the position. "
17 " This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. One might even call it the trump card of the stupid, since (and this is surely one of the tragedies of human existence) it is the one form of stupidity to which it is most difficult to come up with an intelligent response. "
― David Graeber , The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
18 " Let me not fear the tragedies of life but fear the triumphs. "
― Debasish Mridha
19 " A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope. "
― , Zen and the Art of Happiness
20 " We all look for meaning behind the tragedies that befall us. And sometimes the meaning is there. But sometimes, Master Bruce, terrible things just happen. No sinister plots. No secret societies. They just happen. "