A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.
Sergei LukyanenkoTags: sex tragedy showing-off semyon a-common-cause
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.
Gary SteinerTags: injustice power animals morality justice silence veganism tragedy oppression violence slavery domestication
Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.
Gary SteinerTags: power animals morality silence tragedy oppression violence invisibility kinship speciesism
Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: heart tragedy medicine healing gratitude thankfulness thanks richelle richelle-goodrich
To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.
Amy DeniseTags: love family romance tragedy military hardship
If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said that
every mushroom cloud has a silver lining.
Tags: life inspirational optimism hope tragedy song-lyrics
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: art books writers literature creativity tragedy artists classics novels dark-humor arts-and-humanities sad-but-true scandal
One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from a deity who is testing and training you like a lab rat! And that is what we are saying when we fretfully ask, "What can God be trying to teach me through this tragedy?
Robert M. PriceIn the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
Douglas AdamsTags: humor life death tragedy irony
It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated by the power of the law. Reducing it all to a summary of a few pages, organizing the facts, judging it, archiving it, and forgetting it. That simple. And yet in the silence of that place you could hear the murmur of the written words, of the key players, the screams of the victims, the hatred never forgotten by either party, the pain that never went away.
Víctor del ÁrbolTags: tragedy law human-life justice-system
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