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"The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope."
"The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy."
"The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves."
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
"When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself."
"If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin."
"The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world."
"The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born."
"Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life."
"It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left."
"The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations."
"I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."
"The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history."
"When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone."
"Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief."
"The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul."
"Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism."
"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own."
"The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank."
