Tragic Flaw Quotes

“Noble in defeat, he (Nixon) was now without grace in victory. I had seen the president show rare courage when others are around him shrank in fear. Since I had come to respect the president for what he was at his best moments, I learned to accept him for what he was at his worst. Loyalty, like love, creates its own image of what we see.”
― Charles W. Colson, Born Again

“Sitting there, with the urn casting flickering flames on our faces, I saw it. The yearning, his angst. But at the time, I mistook the source of his desires. In my egotism, I thought it was all directed at me. I made the mistake of imaging myself as the axis of Levi’s world. The nexus of his desires.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen