Quotes About Hope In Tragedy

#1. You can hope all you want for a happy ending, but sometimes, like it or not, the guy writing your story is working on a tragedy; you may not even be the main character.

Shalom Auslander

#2. For all the loss and tragedy I have known, my life has taught me that the human spirit like the lifted hands of the blind, will rise above chaos and destruction, as wings in flight

Vaddey Ratner

#3. We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. It seemed a tragedy to want nothing - and yet he wanted something, something. He knew in flashes what it was - some path of hope to lead him toward what he thought was an imminent and ominous old age.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. One could only trudge away from the place to which one had hurried in such hope at the start. One could only begin again, a year older, and resolve to carry oneself in such a way that the pressure wave of the tragedy was contained within one's own body, and could not spread one inch further.

Chris Cleave

#6. Tragedy of life is not to have many purposes in life, but to have no purpose in life.

Debasish Mridha

#7. hope and fear are just different aspects of the same submission to history. Sitting and istening to the same story, one can hope for a happy ending while another fears a tragedy. Neither is free.

Anonymous

#8. God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

Alex Cox

#10. It's such an honor to be representing the USA in an international beauty contest in spite of all the tragedy that's happened in this country lately. I really hope that this this will raise everybody's spirits a little.

Olivia Culpo

#11. What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Dalai Lama XIV

#13. When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways
either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

Dalai Lama XIV

#14. A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

Debasish Mridha

#15. I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best. We believe we can make something for ourselves- something good that will last- even though, at the exact same time, we know we can't.

Katherine Center

#16. Someone who doesn't know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

Shannon A. Thompson

#17. In spite of all the tragedy and cruelty, all humans have a kind heart, great spirit, and an insatiable love for the humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#18. In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

Eustace Haydon

#20. Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

Anne Fortier

#21. Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Jean Anouilh

#22. Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#23. Sometimes life's lessons may not be easily labeled; and we may not understand simply because we are too close to the situation (emotionally). Bad things and tragedy strike all around us with no obvious reasons but somewhere in this "the phoenix will rise from the ashes".

Nehali Lalwani

#24. A coaster gives you hope. You can pretty much ride a good one through the worst tragedy life throws at you. You can even ride it through somebody dying, I guess.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#25. To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.

Harold Bloom

#26. By this edition of HAMLET I hope to help the student of Shakspere to understand the play - and first of all Hamlet himself, whose spiritual and moral nature are the real material of the tragedy, to

George MacDonald

#27. In moments of comfort, prepare for adversity.
In moments of misfortune, hope for prosperity.
In moments of blessing, plan for tragedy.
In moments of danger, fight for victory.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Joy turns tears into laughter.
Hope turns mourning into gladness.
Wisdom turns tragedy into fortune.
Faith turns defeat into triumph.
Love turns enmity into friendship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#29. We may be helpless to stop bad things from happening, but perhaps God leaves us signs and road maps to help us recover and reconnect, provided we know where to look.

Jennifer Gardner Trulson

#30. I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

Paula Heller Garland

#31. In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

Dean Koontz

#32. If you let tragedy change you,
You have already lost.

Nikki Rowe

#33. Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead.

Donna Lynn Hope

#34. Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

Arthur Miller

#35. When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.

Philip Yancey

#36. I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

Aeschylus

#37. History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

#38. Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.

Adam Hamilton

#39. She's Verglas's greatest tragedy and last hope: the Princess Rakel.

K.M. Shea

#40. No god will spare you forgiveness for loving me.

Liam Levi

#41. Life is a mystical and tragic thing. It is a journey often full of fear, when it ought to be full of hope. It's fascinating to look back on your life and feel as though most of it was a precursor to the rest of it; to what was always supposed to be.

L.K. Hill

#42. I want to thank everyone and everything,
every sunrise and every sunset,
every abundance and every beauty,
every tragedy and every triumph,
every sadness and every happiness,
every moment and every experience
that we call life deserves my deepest gratitude.

Debasish Mridha

#43. We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.

Mahmoud Darwish

#44. It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout.

Jean Anouilh

#45. The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope,

Benjamin Watson

#46. 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

#47. It is a cumulative tragedy, the same tragedy that blights the entire country. With so many dead bodies, how do you begin to rebuild? How do you trust enough to hope? And how do you hold on to life when it no longer seems worth living?

Vanessa Woods

#48. I guess it's human nature to question yourself, to question why all the pain has had to happen? sometimes there isn't any answers it just is what it is and how we make ourselves feel and see through that, is what will determine how we move forward.

Nikki Rowe

#49. My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

Debasish Mridha

#50. The Civil War was the climax of a tragedy that was preordained from the time of the Revolution. Only with the elimination of slavery could this nation that Jefferson had called "the world's best hope" for democracy even begin to fulfill its great promise.

Gordon S. Wood

#51. I make art when I can't gather the words to say.

Nikki Rowe

#52. Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.

Michael Paterniti

#53. Liza with her acceptance could take care of tragedy; she had no real hope this side of Heaven.

John Steinbeck

#54. A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

Chris Pine

#55. There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

George Carlin

#56. I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

Nikki Rowe

#57. It's not over if you're still here," Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive.

Patrick Rothfuss

#58. I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

Carroll Quigley

#59. 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

#60. We fear changes, so we fear to let it go, not knowing that life is an ever-changing, magnificent flower of triumph, tragedy, love, hope, and joy.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Man can recover from epic tragedy, he can live through immense hardship and endure the great injustices of life, but take away his hope and man is truly broken.

David Alejandro Fearnhead

#62. Even in tragedy, God through His Word offers hope for those who seek and believe. It starts with the promise of a better tomorrow, of life everlasting, of eternal peace. It's called faith, and it offers hope where none existed.

Zig Ziglar

#63. We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.

Saul Bellow

#64. Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were forced to see the world for what it was?

Chris Dietzel

#65. Isn't that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#66. Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

Thomas Boswell

#67. There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.

Nikki Rowe

#68. Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

Alessandra Torre

#69. I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.

George Chuvalo

#70. It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#71. Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

Richard Paul Evans

#72. I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Elie Wiesel

#73. My sister's looking off to the side so half her face is in shadow and her smile is neatly cut in half. It's like one of those Greek tragedy masks in a textbook that's half one idea and half the opposite. Light and dark. Hope and despair. Laughter and sadness. Trust and loneliness.

Haruki Murakami

#74. I believe that life is full of tragedy. Some lives more than others. But I also believe that comfort can be found with the people that love you . . . if you're willing to let them give it.

Eliza Maxwell

#75. If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

Paulo Coelho

#76. 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.

Adam Young Owl

#77. My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

Judy Collins

#78. The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.

Stefan Zweig