...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

Chris Cleave
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  2. There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  3. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. - George Bernard Shaw

  4. The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole

  5. Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. - Jean Racine

More Quotes By Chris Cleave
  1. Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.

  2. One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.

  3. One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering parts, might be undamaged in the west." "We also serve who live with grace." "If there had been more time, or less, it all would have been easier. If its an hour one can say what...

  4. In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

  5. But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

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