underscored — Underscored

@underscored

4 clips · 1 follower

Tag:tragedyClear

The bitterest tragedy is not to die young, but to have had a great vision and to have lived to see it proved wrong.
— Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)

2w ago

We shall not pretend that life is all beauty; we shall, as tragic poets always do, start with evil, and only then show that the noblest response to evil is not flight from it but the courage to face it.

4mo ago

longreads.com

‘Nothing Together’

I remember after Sandy Hook, President Barack Obama said that if a tragedy of such enormity didn't change hearts, minds, and legislation, then nothing would. I'm afraid he might have been right.

5mo ago

honest-broker.com

The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'

Before the electrodes were attached to his head he'd lost everything tangible: money, property, children; even his rights as a citizen had been taken away from him by order of the court….I will never know all that was in his head at that time, nor will anyone else.

8mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

Start saving quotes →