“It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.” PeopleWorldLongJobsPastForcePowerfulSourceTragedy Author:Bill Keller
“The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death.” MindBodyEnemyStruggleModernSourceUltimateTragedyParadoxSiteSource Of Life Book:Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death Source: Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.” LifeWritingFirstsHumansMomentsAgePoetryHumanitySpeakLanguageSubjectsPoetSourceProtectElementsTragedyAncientIllnessOld AgeHuman LifeTragic Author:Louise Bogan
“It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.” MenLongBookYoungSpaceWonderCasesMysteryModernCrimeSourceUniqueTragedyMurderLatterDevotedOutstandingModern TimesCanonLatter DaysMurder Mysteries Book:The Greene Murder Case Source: The Greene Murder Case
“There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength to confront challenges despite fear and to continue and the heart to continue with bold confidence despite the pain of caused by tragedy.” GivingHeartPainNamesWaitingChallengesSourceTragedyDespiteWithin You Author:Michael Josephson
“It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.” NeedsGivingHeartInspirationSpiritualTurnsVoicePrayerAttentionLordCuttingSourceComfortGiving UpTragedyAdversityHearingRevelationsSpiritual LifeHopelessnessPerilGreat TragedyLifelines Author:David S. Baxter
“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.” WholeSufferingEmotionTakenSourceHeroSceneEssentialsTragedyAddWidePityChiefsProportionTragicIngredientsWoeExceptionalCalamityVaryExtending Author:A. C. Bradley
“Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory has been the greatest source of joy and comfort. The gift of a son is pretty amazing as well.” WayWellsHas BeensJoySeeingSonSourceComfortGloryTragedyFaithful Author:Matt Hammitt
“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.” ComedySourceTragedyEndlessSettingSettingsIntrigueBattlefieldsSpaceships Author:Joyce Maynard