The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- ... BARBARA BLATNER I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference... BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, ... BARBARA BLATNER I felt a numb shock as I drove home anxious to get my chocolate flowers and wondering how my mother ... JORI NUNES blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, o... BARBARA BLATNER Might not live long but I know I'ma die happy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Y luego el patecal ése, que no te pudo salvar con sus medicinas, aunque tú ni las necesitabas, pue... CARLOS FUENTES Time is life. Time for birth, time for death. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Done to death by slanderous tongue WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The greatest loss is the loss of life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. JEFFREY ARCHER The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. MITCH ALBOM It's not a matter of if they show up. It's that (the evacuees') needs are being met. People shouldn'... JOE KELLER It's not a matter of if they show up, ... It's that (the evacuees') needs are being met. People shou... JOE KELLER Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. ... EMM COLE We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other... TIMOTHY SCHAFFERT Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. FELIX FRANKFURTER Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure ... IRA N. BARIN We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping ?' 'You're bitching about ... LETA BLAKE in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN Take these broken wings and learn to fly. PAUL MCCARTNEY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really... VICENTE FOX We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to
others, waste and destruction to themsel... RICHARD HOOKER How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The dead only knows their world. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned ... REBECCA HARRIS I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I... ELLEN DEGENERES The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Okay.' I can feel the letters vomit off my tongue. O. K. A. Y. I watch the... STEVEN ROWLEY A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Responding to bereavement by trying to make a difference is certainly both understandable and admira... WILLIAM MACASKILL We were up three and we should never give up a (3-pointer). That was my fault. We were switching and... DIRK NOWITZKI It'll end up being a pretty significant hit. It's easy to forget that these natural disasters destro... JAMES GLASSMAN Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish ... RICHARD PUZ The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young and this alone proves tha... ZOE AKINS I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. We played well, pretty much up to our potential. We came out with a lot of intensity and are looking... JULIAN ILLINGWORTH The only real equality is in the cemetery GERMAN PROVERB History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a pa... GEORGE LEONARD At a time in human history when technology has the potential to profoundly affect people and society... FRANK MOSS It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confront... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be allevia... BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history and has caused unim... LAURA BUSH When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain. NIKITA DUDANI I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS It was important we got off to a good start and we got two early wickets and picked up more pretty r... SHAUN POLLOCK Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountai... ROBERT BATEMAN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know tha... TERRY PRATCHETT You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS Many malls will spend weeks, if not months, to start setting up. Many retailers are just trying to g... ELLEN DAVIS When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. Life is a tragic place because, its a place we find death. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If we can get off to a quick start, the louder that place gets. When it's loud, that's a tough place... LEON POWE It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized worl... THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC AND GREAT SEA DISASTERS Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their c... THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC AND GREAT SEA DISASTERS When we start winning and get the pieces in place, we'll get more and more people and that building ... GREG CRONIN If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence wh... WARD CHURCHILL You look back and it's a bank three to start the game and, well, that looks pretty big right now. Ju... BOBBY ERVIN We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We had the bases loaded three times and get one run out of it. We need to get some guys to step up a... ANDY ZAVOREK
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