That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss. —Sarah Rayner in One Morning More about this quote Tags: love potential loss tragedy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Sarah Rayner Sarah Rayner is a British author who grew up in Richmond. She lives in Brighton and worked as an advertising copywriter before writing fiction full-time.
More quotations tagged with “tragedy” When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy — which could happen to any one of us — we can react in two ways. Obviously, we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, and unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force. —14th Dalai Lama More about this quote Tags: hope sadness tragedy energy alcohol live clarity drugs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email And this is the simple truth — that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: truth life ideas tragedy clinging chaos salvation being lost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email America: a country where everything is done to prove life isn't tragic. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: USA tragedy proof Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: humanity life meaning science universe tragedy farce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is the virtue and the pathos of man that he aspires endlessly toward a better world; it is his weakness and his tragedy that he does nothing to bring such a world even one step nearer. —Ludwig Lewisohn More about this quote Tags: virtue weakness world tragedy pathos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy — which could happen to any one of us — we can react in two ways. Obviously, we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, and unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force. —14th Dalai Lama More about this quote Tags: hope sadness tragedy energy alcohol live clarity drugs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And this is the simple truth — that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: truth life ideas tragedy clinging chaos salvation being lost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America: a country where everything is done to prove life isn't tragic. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: USA tragedy proof Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: humanity life meaning science universe tragedy farce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the virtue and the pathos of man that he aspires endlessly toward a better world; it is his weakness and his tragedy that he does nothing to bring such a world even one step nearer. —Ludwig Lewisohn More about this quote Tags: virtue weakness world tragedy pathos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email