I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy and a tragic attitude toward tragedy — why I had become identified with the objects of my horror or compassion.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: melancholy sadness tragedy
This world’s anguish is no different
from the love we insist on holding back.
Tags: fear pain love peace war faith hope tragedy violence grief unconditional-love peacemaking conflict-resolution anguish gun-violence world-suicide-prevention-day police-reform police-shootings agape-love peace-movement gun-laws spiritual-love nonviolent-conflict-resolution syrian-civil-war afghanistan-war casualties-of-war child-victims-of-war children-killed-in-war russia-and-ukraine-conflict
Confidence don't mean jack shit in the real world, sis," she once said. I feel myself finding the courage to trust those words more and more with every twist of the knife. Coincidentally, last Tuesday afternoon I was involuntarily exposed to the punch line of an old wise tale that goes something like: "There's beauty that can be found in everything." But why can't the insensitive cunt who said that ever find the courage to look in the mirror? Because poopycock, one might say.
Dave MatthesTags: love music man woman beauty hate romance death story tragedy reflection suicide narcissism mirror epic
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela CarterTags: tragedy comedy angela-carter
Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!
Brandon SandersonTags: tragedy disaster ice-cream
The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the left-hand corner is a tiny ocean the size of a palm, and there, I can barely make it out, the two legs of a man who fell headlong into the sea. This is called the Fall of Icarus. Compared to everyday life, the fall of an idealist who flew too high with candle-wax wings is an unremarkable tragedy.
Hwang Sok-yongTags: perspective idealism tragedy hwang-sok-yong pieter-bruegel the-fall-of-icarus the-old-garden
My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.
Jodi PicoultTags: tragedy
Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.
Alessandra TorreTags: insanity despair hope tragedy danger hopeless insane insanity-is-normal
Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them.
Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I still remember my childhood.
Some people are vegans. I have common sense.
Some people call me Maurice. Some people call me the Gangsta of Love.
Some people just want to live...but me, I'm the one still alive.
Tags: life truth optimism love music philosophy hate sadness death sex tragedy trust tears suicide sisters forever band cynicism-reality
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.
Robyn SchneiderTags: life death tragedy hopelessness
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