Tragedy Quotes

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffe...

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given...

Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and la...

But I had deliberately acquired the habit of closing my eyes even to such obvious assumptions, just ...

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Love can be a very frightening thing.”“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

I loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner f...

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which th...

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's t...

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with th...

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tr...

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, h...

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the so...

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very p...

A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains e...

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punis...

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force ...

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intel...

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated f...

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin do...

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no ch...

We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the ...

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha...

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first ink...

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant f...

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor wou...

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!"Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I ca...

Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of...

It’s just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there and that you meant it but I gue...

You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; yo...

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded...

So be careful when you bend over.

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our da...

It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comi...

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy.

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect peo...

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. ...

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that ...

Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people ...

It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met wit...

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live...

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of t...

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,'...

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to stran...

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realiza...

Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their l...

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattere...

I watched 60 Minutes...and they showed this woman, she's in every kind of..thing like that. 'This wo...

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be d...

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was th...

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enem...

If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, le...

All this under a magnificent blue sky.

Sometimes I am asked if I know the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, b...

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it - and in breaking it, you have broken mine ... I f...

I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and w...

LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey)...

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melan...

At the beginning of the war…I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow…What ...

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and wher...

... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of the...

Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a...

The satyr, as the Dionysiac chorist, dwells in a reality sanctioned by myth and ritual. That tragedy...

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she ...

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has...

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not on...

Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) - Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez (Highlight: 5; Note: 0)---...

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individua...

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, ...

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great t...

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with coura...