Human Tragedy Quotes

“Do unto others’ is an unnatural, inhuman behavior. You can understand why so many churches and churchgoers say it but so few achieve it. It goes against something fundamental in our natures. And this, then, is the human tragedy—that the common humanity we share is fundamentally based on the denial of a common shared humanity.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“What freedom are we to find
when our restless minds
are enslaved under the chains
of human trafficking?

What freedom do we preach
when our females breathe
through enraged wounds?
They are used and abused,
left in caves alienated and bruised.

What is this language we speak of
when we talk about the law,
since the human right clause
is ignored and flawed?
Whom is it protecting
because here we are protesting?

Isn't this law ought to save
the bodies of young females?
Isn't this law ought to be brave
and remove females from sex frames?
Instead, it chooses for women and children to die
leaving their loved ones with no goodbyes.

Human trafficking, I say,
has made enough money for the day.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Such is the commander's lot.
Such is the folly of humanity.
Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance.”
― Christina Engela, Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror

“The tragedy of a human is that it has divided one God, in several religions and sects even it does not follow the teachings and instructions of God.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“1920… Chaos.
A chaos brewed from fear, lawlessness, constant changes of power, civil war, and disease.
The Red Commissars with their grain requisitions.
The White Guards with arrogant imperial plunder.
Makhno’s forces with anarchist expropriations and the division of everything and everyone.
The gangs of Hryhoriev, Marusia, and countless others…
Each with its own rules.
Yet all of them take and kill, rape and rob.
In Tomakivka, only one institution functioned reliably – the hospital.
It was needed by every warring authority, every general and ataman:
the wounded had to be treated, the sick healed,
and the able-bodied fed and given shelter.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One


Context note: Set in Ukraine during the Civil War (1917–1921), at the time of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, when multiple armed forces – Red, White, anarchist, and local warlord groups — fought for control, leaving civilians trapped in a landscape of violence, lawlessness, and disease.”
― Володимир Шабля