Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augusten Burroughs

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

C. S. Lewis

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

Ali Hewson

I don't feel threatened. You can live your life being scared of losing someone and, at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you and that's it.

Paulo Coelho

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

Emmanuelle Beart

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Charles Peguy

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Tristan Taylor

When the tragedy first happened, I wished there was a way I could go there and help.

Richard Dormer

We want to keep it like that. We don't want a tragedy to occur.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Jonathan Raymond

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Johnny Mercer

Things never are as bad as they seem.

Roger Scruton

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.