Quotes About Life After Tragedy

#1. 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

#2. I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

Ellie Goulding

#3. Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.

Craig Groeschel

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things ...

Hans Blix

#7. 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

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

Samar Sudha

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

Tom Perrotta

#10. There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.

Abraham Foxman

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

Carmen DeSousa

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

Jack Kent Cooke

#15. For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

Will Durant

#16. 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

#17. Many a wrong, and it's curing song,
many a road, and many an inn,
Room to roam, but only one home,
for all the world to win.
George MacDonald, (Lilith)

George MacDonald

#18. 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

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

Fauja Singh

#20. You can't move on, if you haven't forgiven yourself, yet.

Basma Salem

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

Voltaire

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

Olivia Olivia

#23. I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.

Ashley Madekwe

#24. 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