In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.
Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.
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Sarah Ockler
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.
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Dalai Lama Xiv
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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George Bernard Shaw
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Horace Walpole
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
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Jean Racine
More Quotes By Per Petterson
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
But that's life. That's what you learn from when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.
All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That it often did. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in...
You decide for yourself when it will hurt.
...you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.
