After Tragedy Quotes

#1. It is a grace that comes, unexpected, after tragedy- this reminder that most hearts are good.

Cynthia Rylant

#2. This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination and reinforcing attitudes that privilege the forces of law and order as against the crosscurrents of freedom and dissent.

Richard A. Falk

#3. It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.

Naomi Levy

#4. The consciousness of an embryo is the universal consciousness. What we learn after birth is awareness and egocentric consciousness that we call the mind. Everyday we learn to conform to the beauty, tragedy, and adversity of this world and that forms our judgmental mind.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I love you, Chansey Rose Leclaire and it is a terrible tragedy that you will never know how much because I could never be the same after loving you. - Curry from Blood of Anteros

Georgia Cates

#6. Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord Henry, listening in rapt pleasure to "Tannhauser" and seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul.

Oscar Wilde

#7. The day after the darkest hour is always the most beautiful.

Wheston Chancellor Grove

#8. Jokes are actually played by life, which after calls tragedies

Samar Sudha

#9. This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.

Arthur Machen

#10. It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.

Manil Suri

#11. Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

Tom Perrotta

#12. O'Neill was perceptive enough to understand the country had a new leader that it wanted to believe in. After the tragedy of Dallas, after the quicksand of Vietnam, the scandal of Watergate, and the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter, it needed one.

Chris Matthews

#13. After an hour of gliding though the crowd and two glasses of tepid wine later, Penelope had reached the spiritual state of being merrily tipsy. It was that perfect state when everything starts looking wonderful and every tragedy turns into a comedy.

Anya Wylde

#14. If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?

Amir Taheri

#15. First my husband, then my parents died. After that I lost my two sisters. When death comes to someone's home it's as if it wants to get as much done as quickly as possible to save coming again for a long time.

Guy De Maupassant

#16. Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

Carmen DeSousa

#17. A Tornado knocks a house down, killing the owner, and it's a tragedy. Then you learn a serial killer lived there and the same act becomes a miracle. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing. Always. It never stops. Sometimes not even after death.

Marisha Pessl

#18. Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Gail Sheehy

#19. But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.

Margaret Atwood

#20. You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

Howard Barker

#21. The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.

David Whyte

#22. I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

Jim Steranko

#23. There has to be some way this won't end in tragedy. Why can't Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after? It's as if the universe won't abide such a strong connection in such a disconnected world, as if our connection defies the natural order.

Kitty Thomas

#24. We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and
willingly give up life itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#25. After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.

Yasunari Kawabata

#26. The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. After a while, a woman can find the satin edges of grace in tragedy's wool blanket.

Susan Reinhardt

#28. No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Kelsey Grammer

#29. There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

Auberon Waugh

#30. All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy.
Children of Ankh series

Kim Cormack

#31. I may know I am better than an 18, but the computer absorbs my scores year after year and continues to tell me that is what I am. Therein lies the tragedy of golf. We know what we should be, but there is always some number telling us what it is ...

Peter Andrews

#32. When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.

Carol Guzy

#33. Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things - and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#34. Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

Alex Lifeson

#35. A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals
that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

Zadie Smith

#36. Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.

Jane D. Hull

#37. Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.

S.L. Northey

#38. Isn't that the tragic thing about women? That we live on long after our passions have died?

Olivia Olivia

#39. Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Voltaire

#40. The tragedy of one successful politician after another is the gradual substitution of narcissism for an interest in the community and the measures for which he stands.

Bertrand Russell

#41. It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Angela Carter

#42. It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

Russell Banks

#43. Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

Fauja Singh

#44. After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

J.R. Ward

#45. How tragic lives there are in this world! But there is a greater tragedy: People who have very hard lives often believe that they will have a better life after death! Losing hope in life and running after an absolute illusion is even a bigger tragedy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#46. Psychologists have found that people who watch less TV are actually more accurate judges of life's risks and rewards than those who subject themselves to the tales of crime, tragedy, and death that appear night after night on the ten o'clock news.32

Shawn Achor

#47. The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.

Venita VanCaspel

#48. Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

Michael Bloomberg

#49. You've faced horrors in these past weeks ... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

Tasha Alexander

#50. OEDIPUS:
O, O, O, they will all come,
all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me
look upon you no more after today!
I who first saw the light bred of a match
accursed, and accursed in my living
with them I lived with, cursed in my killing.

Sophocles

#51. Besides, Watson," he added, with a glint of humour in his grey eyes, "you, after all, are a man of the world. We must put your skills to use, for there is no greater tragedy on God's green earth than that of untapped talent.

Lyndsay Faye

#52. The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

William Muir

#53. Misunderstanding and distrust - the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

Carmen DeSousa

#54. After my father died, I learned that when tragedy strikes, you can either open up or shut down. My mother opened up and was not herself for some time. I shut down, and it worked for me. I shut down again on the day of September the eleventh.

H M Naqvi

#55. Tragedy, after all, is the invisible hand that spawns reflection, and reflection bears its fruit in the deepening of one's character.

Richard Harris

#56. THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit. It's a genuine tragedy. Worse yet, it's an unnecessary tragedy. After all, artists who continue and artists who quit share an immense field of common emotional

David Bayles

#57. Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#58. No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#59. After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

George Pataki