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“The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!”

Knows Needs Humans Faces Night Stars Hours Brother Tragedy Ancient Hunger Candle Human Love

Author:George Sterling

“It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos in English. The plots that entangle our souls and draw forth our characters are the great myths. That is why we need a sense of myth and knowledge of different myths to gain insight into our epic struggles, our misalliances, and our tragedies. Myths show the imaginative structures inside our messes, and our human characters can locate themselves against the background of the characters of myth.”

Source: The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life

“Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.”

Needs Humans Stories Film Challenges Tragedy Familiar Genre Ethical Samurai

Book:The Great Movies IV

Source: The Great Movies IV

“...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.”

People Ifs Men Needs Ends Culture Poverty Break Becoming Drama Waste Computer Men And Women Tragedy Profit Thought Provoking Idols Consumption Norm

Author:Pope Francis

“We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.”

Needs Inspiration Faces Motivation Tragedy Adversity Rolling Inspiration And Motivation

Author:Steve Gleason

“To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.”

Needs Happens Able Joy Tragedy Endure Great Things Good And Bad Setback

Author:Ryan Holiday

“In Serbia's case, the unresolved accountability for the Bytyqi brothers massacre needs to be resolved. And we would urge you to give this matter prompt and immediate attention to bring those responsible to justice for this tragedy.”

Needs Giving Matter Justice Attention Cases Brother Tragedy Responsible Urges Accountability Prompts Massacres Serbia

Author:Ben Cardin

“Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.”

“If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility of conflict - and of tragedy - can never wholly be eliminated from human life, either personal or social. The necessity of choosing between absolute claims is then an inescapable characteristic of the human condition. This gives its value to freedom as Acton conceived of it - as an end in itself, and not as a temporary need, arising out of our confused notions and irrational and disordered lives, a predicament which a panacea could one day put right.”

“One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.”

Men Needs Heart War Faces Fear Behinds Accepting Enemy Land Duty Wall One Day Crosses Tragedy Green Each Day Dread Eastern Trembling

Author:David Gemmell

“What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?”

Needs Life Is Gone Our Lives Tragedy Disaster Mortals Artificial Primitive Quarrels Calamity Unbelief Harshness

Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.”

Needs Possibility Limits Europe Tragedy Mysterious Inexorable

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.”

Want Needs Real Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Worst Tragedy Independent Nightmare Need You Analogies Worst Nightmares

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.”

Thinking Needs Writing Mean Art Sometimes Hurt Source Tragedy Very Good Painful Bad Things Covered Layers Pearls Good Place Time Passes Places To Go

Author:Neil Gaiman