Top 33 Family Tragedy Sayings
#1. My interior was a wreck, a car crash, a plane crash, a family tragedy, financial misfortune. My body was sitting tight but my soul was not.
Jordan Krall
#2. To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.
Amy Denise
#3. God is well able to turn your tragedies into triumphs.
Jim George
#4. Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.
Edward Morris
#5. When tragedy happens a real family pulls together, mine ripped apart.
Janette Oke
#6. We also learned our own history and I was so grateful that such richness comes from our family stories. Now we will forever remember the day that a Russian cellist spoke the heart of Czech people. Rostropovich loved Prague and so he viewed that performance as a personal tragedy.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#7. Robot RHR14- "I have been with this human family through all their joys and tragedies, and if there was a tragedy in my existence, it was creating me in the first place. For they dared to give me the concept of Love and Compassion yet withheld my abilty to cry.
Jay B. Cox
#8. I wrapped up the remaining half burrito and tossed it into the trash can. Molly watched this act of wastefulness with an expression like she had just seen her entire family die in a fire.
David Wong
#9. The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
C. G. Jung
#10. Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
George Orwell
#11. More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
Joyce Maynard
#12. On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.
Peter Hoeg
#13. Every normal family is one tragedy away from complete implosion.
Katja Millay
#14. Hong Kong became so materialistic that it must be one of the rarest places in the world where family members need to make an appointment to have dinner together, and people speculate upon their own home where their own children are growing up.'
Quote from my 7th book about Hong Kong!
Tim I. Gurung
#15. That is the tragedy of losing an older brother. He stays still. You keep on and one day become the older one. It's unnatural, that reversal. It's the thing that keeps the family from ever being whole again.
Tiffany McDaniel
#16. What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.
Steve Pemberton
#17. Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#18. I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#19. One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
Bob Seger
#21. Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit
Queen Elizabeth II
#22. Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.
Eugene O'Neill
#25. The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.
Fredrik Backman
#26. Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother.
Diane Samuels
#27. My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
Ani DiFranco
#28. family likely heard about the tragedy and wanted to help.
Debra Webb
#29. The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
Seth Godin
#30. as if this tragedy marked the end of the family. And perhaps it did. And perhaps it did not.
E. Lockhart
#31. Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.
Michelle Bachelet
#32. I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy.
John Turturro
#33. One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Ben Kingsley
