“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.”
“For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.”
“Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. ”
“Tragedy alters everything.”
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
“It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.”