Surviving Tragedy Quotes

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

“In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Their locked hands offered a stark reminder of how many scars lingered … shards of war and distressing anguish forever branded them. Yet in this endearing moment of comfort, their adversity became skinspeak between survivors phoenixing from the ashes of their perilous journey—their burning eagerness for survival overcoming the forces that once tried to stifle their light.”
― Becca Vry, Musings: An Argyle Empire Anthology

“You can survive the storm. Your soul is stronger than the storm.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“You have the freedom and the ability to decide what to do with your life, and that includes learning how to welcome happiness again. It's a conscious choice we each have to make, to emerge from the embers of profound loss and hopelessness, to become the fire that warms us, lights our path, all of it. We can embody that warmth and light.”
― Becca Vry, Musings: An Argyle Empire Anthology

“In the past I think I had corralled rotten things into groups of three because at some level it gave me the impression I was controlling them, keeping track of them. In my world I believed the universe would only dish out so much shite before it realised it had overdone it and corrected matters.

That, of course, turned out to be nonsense.

The truth is that sometimes the shite just keeps on coming and that is what is so unfair. But here's the thing: it's never all shite. If you can wake up in the morning for just long enough to breathe in and out and see the sun shining, you're already surviving it. You're already if not getting around it, at least getting over it, getting past it.

And who knows what can happen then?”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“No one can foretell the details in a day, we can only hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“That's what makes a tragedy a tragedy. There's no rhyme or reason to it, only heartbreak. The only thing you can do when the ground stops shaking and the waters recede is try to save whoever's left.”
― Kimberly Belle, The Ones We Trust

“When people focus on the problem, they lose sight of the solution.”
― Dr. Mansur Hasib

“May you find grace to survive life difficulties.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Fury and Fire cannot Still a Loving Heart ` 'Stilled Heart- - Life's Seasons”
― Mala Naidoo, Life's Seasons