Judy Collins Quotes

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

Every loss, every defeat is tough in its own way.

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.