Tragedies Quotes (page 16)
![Martin Luther King jr. quote: "The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of..."](/pic/293497/600x316/quotation-martin-luther-king-jr-the-ultimate-tragedy-of-birmingham-was.jpg)
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
Johnny Cash
She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
Suzanne Collins
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![John Fowles quote: "That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be..."](/pic/291524/600x316/quotation-john-fowles-that-was-the-tragedy-not-that-one-man-had-the.jpg)
![Socrates quote: "Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your..."](/pic/288999/600x316/quotation-socrates-life-contains-but-two-tragedies-one-is-not-to-get.jpg)
Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.
Friedrich Nietzsche