T Quotes
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“Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.”
Source: Winter's Tales
“Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.”
“Tragedy springs from its own peculiar sorcery, with treachery, born of envy or ambition, a usual instigator. Treachery is apparent only after the events staged are well over, as we know, its victims dead, or living and smarting under its tricks, realizing too late how they have been misused: if indeed they are ever cognizant of its role, if still players, to this wonder and rue. Most unacceptable is its subtlety, the double-face which double-deals, the Iago perpetrators hidden for decades, smiling the smiles of polite and not so polite society. They nod and wave, heroes to many; sly politicians these Claudiuses. Time favours the Macbeths and forgets the maligned. The former enjoy live, some even oblivious to their lies as being lies, for they prefer to bask in blessings, aping the certainties of creed, cheating death and duty while in pavilions of ease. They succeed on their success, trite or vast; wealth for some, and enviably, fame for the few. The unaware, their victims, float off to obscurity on ruptured vessels of injustice to theater lands unknown, never really knowing why, if the job's done property. Normality is, truthfully, life's whore, readily embraced and conveniently embracing; secretly, it has the clap. Thinking of plot should then give pause. The treacherous cheat fate and re-write, their 'intended history'. Call it fate. They become authors of an illicit story, penmen of their own gods, living their own fresh creation through a new, egregious, utilitarian drama that is untouched by either truth or beauty.”
Source: Pacific Viking
“Tragedy springs from the impossibility of attaining Being in an objective way, or of realizing communion between men considered as social beings; it springs from the everlasting conflict between the Ego and the object; and, finally, it arises from the gnosiological problem of solitude which is the special province of philosophy.”
Source: العزلة والمجتمع
“Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.”
“Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.”
“Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.”
Source: The Recognitions: A Novel
“Tragedy, when it strikes, it takes a piece of you.”
Source: Dakini : A Novel
“Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.”
“Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.”
“Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.”
“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.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.”
“Tragic deaths aren't avoidable. That's what Ezra said outside Sam's wake, and even though--to use Foster's phrasing--I didn't know anything about anything, I felt in this moment that Ezra was wrong. What often makes something tragic is that it can be avoided.”
Source: First & Then
“Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.”
Source: Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology
“Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals”
Source: Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)
“Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.”
“Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.”
“Tragic tales rarely do make sense.”
Source: The BlueStocking Girl
“Tragically, because many addicts are not given sufficient love, nurturing and non-shaming dialogue at crucial stages in their early emotional development, they are on a quest to find contentment from a source outside of themselves.
Their parents might have provided bountifully for them; however, their parents were never fully emotionally present while parenting, which made their children feel starved of emotional nourishment.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“Tragically
If you ever loved me
it was because
I bled pretty”
“Tragically ironic, isn't it? How nuclear weapons represent both our species' mastery over the very foundations of nature, as well as our utter inability to master our most primitive instincts.”
Source: Mind Painter
“Tragically, is it frequently the same elements in a relationship that subtly 'encourage' us to continue and deepen it at the time that either signal or lead to its eventual demise, or both.
And yet, in order to enjoy intimate connections without self-sabotaging, there is no other choice but to participate fully in these glowing moments, even under the shadow of the reality that most will eventually fail or diminish--perhaps even catastrophically, with long-lasting traumatic impacts that might inhibit our ability to do so.”
“Tragically, the average life expectancy during this era for captive orcas stood between one to four years. Aquariums often went through a whole series of whales before just one of them made it into adolescence. Today, the life expectancy of captive killer whales has improved: rising to about ten years. Yet this is still a far cry from the thirty to sixty years that orcas can live in the ocean.”
Source: Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
“Tragically, these witch hunts go unpunished because the law books in these countries do not view them as crimes. Basically, the law allows people to act as judge, jury and executioner and is prepared to cast a blind eye no matter how harsh their punishment might be.”
Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
“Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.”
“Tragically, when sin entered the world, human beings were separated from God and from one another.
For example, in Genesis 3 we see our first parents hiding from God and one another in shame that includes confusion over their nakedness and sexuality.”
Source: Porn Again Christian
“Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.”
Source: Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are
“Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.”
“Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow (reductionistic) and instrumental (mechanistic) response to a problem that is fundamentally conceptual: namely, our attitude toward life and our mistreatment of the Earth, plants, and animals-and ourselves in the process.”
“Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.”
“Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.”
“Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.”
“Tragici pensieri, annullano la vita, annegata nel tappo.”
Source: Eccomi ci sono ancora
“Tragische Schuld verkörpert sich im permanenten Konflikt zwischen der uralten religiösen Vorstellung von der Missetat als einer Beschmutzung, die einer ganzen Rasse anhaftet und unausweichlich von einer Generation auf die nächste vererbt wird [...], und dem neuen vom Gesetz übernommenen Konzept, nach dem der Schuldige definiert wird als Privatperson, die sich aus eigenem Antrieb und unter keinem Zwang stehend entschlossen hat, ein Verbrechen zu begehen.”
Source: Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
“Tragt eure Kriege nicht auch ins Private – es gibt bereits genug von ihnen.
Entfernt euch nicht von denen, die sich auf euch zubewegen.
Liebt einander.
Liebt euch selbst und schätzt euren Körper als das, was er ist: ein Wunderwerk der Natur und ein Schatz, da er eurem Leben Raum verleiht.
Seid freundlich zu denen, die ihr noch nicht kennt.
Haltet Kontakt mit euren Freunden und sagt ihnen, was ihr an ihnen liebt.”
Source: Wanderherzen
“Trahi de toutes parts, accablé d'injustices, Je vais sortir d'un gouffre où triomphent les vices ; Et chercher sur la terre un endroit écarté Où d'être homme d'honneur, on ait la liberté.”
Source: The Misanthrope
“Traiam cu impresia ca ajunsesem sa cunosc omul de langa mine, desi nu reusisem sa-i ghicesc vreo intentie vreodata. Era ca un abis pe care n-ai cum sa-l atingi. De cate ori credeam ca il descopar, ma cufundam mai tare in bezna, in intunericul sufletului lui. Atingerile lui erau ca doza de heroina - aveam nevoie de ele sa pot trai - dar ma adusesera pe un drum fara intoarcere. Trebuia sa platesc pacatele lui. Trebuia sa sufar in urma proprie-mi indragosteli, iar asta imi lasase cicatrici pe corp. Dragostea lui ma mutilase.”
Source: Plăceri de diamant
“Traición. Cruda y brutal, siempre se presentaba con la forma del amigo y aliado más cercano. La herida que provocaba en el alma era tan profunda que la víctima, desangrada y débil, se preguntaba si alguna vez sería capaz de confiar en alguien de nuevo.”
Source: Dragonsworn
“Traicióname una vez y tú serás el culpable. Hazlo dos veces y el culpable seré yo.”
Source: Son of No One
“Traigh began the taunting first. “Pray, tell me brother, be there any truth to these rumors floatin’ about the keep?”
Graeme shot him a look of warning. It didn’t do a bit of good.
“What rumors be those, brother Traigh?” Albert asked, feigning ignorance on the matter.
Traigh crossed his arms over his chest. “Why, the rumors that our brother Graeme has fallen in love with our Joie. So much so that they will be married this verra day.”
Graeme had two choices. He could tell his brothers to shut their mouths and leave him be or he could stand like a man and admit the truth, at least as much of it as he could without looking like a fool.
“Aye,” he said as he stepped toward them. “The rumors be true. I have fallen hopelessly in love with my Joie, and aye, we will be married this verra day. Before the evenin’ meal, in fact.”
Traigh and Albert were momentarily stunned at Graeme’s open admission. But ’twas short-lived. Broad smiles broke out on their faces and soon, they were congratulating him with hugs and heavy slaps on the back.
When the celebrating was over, Traigh asked, “Do ye ken what ye’re to do this night? After the weddin’?”
Graeme’s smile evaporated almost instantly. “If ye utter one unkind, disrespectful word as it pertains to consummation and me wife, I swear, I will beat ye within an inch of yer life.”
Traigh quickly wiped away the smile and attempted to appear serious and fully chastised. “Aye, Albert, he be in love, let there be no doubt.”
Source: Isle of the Blessed
“Traigh came to help her dismount, a broad smile making creases around his eyes. “I fear ye missed our summer, Joie.”
Her brow drew in with confusion. “But it is summer, Traigh,” she told him.
“Aye, it might well be summer elsewhere in the world, but here, it only last three days. We had our summer last week.”
Source: Isle of the Blessed
“Trail conflicts can and do occur among different user groups, among different users within the same user group, and as a result of factors not related to users' trail activities at all. In fact, no actual contact among trail users need occur for conflict to be felt.”
“Trail dust is thicker'n blood.”
Source: The Daybreakers
“Trail Magic -kindnesses to strangers, should be passed onto other travellers”
Source: Trail Magic: Going Walkabout for 2184 Miles on the Appalachian Trail
“trail my fingers along the spines of certain books, seeking comfort from them as I would from old friends.”
Source: Entranced
“Trail of lovers
He had walked that path before,
It was a place that was like a sea with no shore,
But he walked anyway,
Relentlessly every night and everyday,
The path seemed to have no end,
But he had his hopes and his aspirations to defend,
He walked everyday, anyway,
And it was so even today,
The path appeared to extend into infinity,
And he hoped for a moment of serendipity,
But there was none, none at all,
The path continued always ahead of his will, and the person in him, unwilling to fall,
Until one day infinity got tired and abruptly ended,
For it had exhausted its every reserve of finite moments that to safeguard its pride it had expended,
When we all expected that he would now stop here,
He pronounced, “I seek something that lies everywhere!”
So, he continued walking and the path stretched as far as it could,
Then one day time too got tired and said, “Stop please. Stop. You should!”
But he smiled and walked anyway,
Because he knew the path he had taken was not to be determined by the trail of the way,
It lay in the vision of the mind where he bore her every sweet memory,
And they fed his quest that would place him on the trail that was starry,
Where sky was the limit, where time was the end, where everywhere was the direction,
Because that is what is felt by a heart kissed by love and someone’s true affection,
And the path has led him somewhere, that is what they say,
Where, I cannot say that, I cannot; nay!
Because time got tired chasing him and his trails of love,
Now they say he resides somewhere where you can reach only with the feelings of that special love,
That he felt, someday and someway,
And in its lure he traveled far, and finally too far away,
Where time gets tired to tread,
Because there only they go who on feelings of romantic love are fed!
And we often think of him, we even think of her, who made him so,
But there, we who can never travel ahead of time, dare not go,
There they now live together,
On the trail of time that lasts forever!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!