Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?... The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened. Harold S. Kushner
Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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D H Lawwrence
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give usan impression...
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Oscar Wilde
Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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William Shakespeare
The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
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Albert Schweitzer
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.
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Gabrielle Zevin
More Quotes By Harold S. Kushner
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that... My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the...
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are
If a human artist or employer made children suffer so that something immensely impressive or valuable could come to pass, wewould put him in prison. Why then should we excuse God for causing such undeserved pain, no matter how wonderful the ultimateresult may be?
Pain is the price we pay for being alive. Dead cells–our hair, our fingernails–can’t feel pain; they cannot feel anything. When weunderstand that, our question will change from, “Why do we have to feel pain?” to “What do we do with our pain so that...
