Tragedy Quotes

The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!

~ Sunday Adelaja

The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

~ Philip K. Dick

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

~ Steven Weinberg

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing close around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage, and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.

~ Cassandra Clare

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

~ George Orwell

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

~ Banana Yoshimoto

Everybody wants love but not everyone wants to love.

~ J. Limbu

All things die,' she told him. Such a truism, it was the trite utterance of any street-corner philosopher, but coming from Inaspe Raimm it sounded different. 'All things reach the end of their journey, be they trees, insects, people or even principalities. All things die so that others may take their place. To die is no tragedy. The tragedy is dying with a purpose unfulfilled.

~ Adrian Tchaikovsky

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

~ John Fowles

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

~ Kristina Mcmorris

..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.

~ Masuji Ibuse

It's still ok to dream with a broken heart.

~ Nikki Rowe

My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free.

~ Nikki Rowe

The tragedy waiting for politicians in future is greater than the gain in politics if it is measured, politicians kill, steal and betray the voters, but at the end they go to early grave, lose their peace and become miserable for the rest of their life.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

A guy never has a right to force a woman to have sex with him under any circumstances. She should be able to say no at any point, and he must honor that denial. It is criminal that so many girls and women are raped today. Fully 60 percent of all females who lose their virginity before age fifteen say that their first sexual experience was forced! That is a tragedy with far-reaching consequences.

~ James C. Dobson

Isn't that the tragic thing about women? That we live on long after our passions have died?

~ Olivia Olivia

All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned everything you knew to the ground and changed you completely. But somehow, if you really wanted to, you could learn how to hold your breath as you made your way through the smoke left in its wake and you could keep going. And sometimes, sometimes, you could grow something beautiful from the ashes that were left behind. If you were lucky.

~ Mariana Zapata

All this under a magnificent blue sky.

~ Elie Wiesel

In the face of immense tragedy—yet again—unexpected beauty.

~ Sara Baume

Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

~ Akshay Vasu

..I marvelled at the intense beauty of this human relationship that was born out of so much love and was destined, perhaps inevitably, to end in a tragedy of such terrible proportions.

~ Arun Joshi

I guess it's human nature to question yourself, to question why all the pain has had to happen? sometimes there isn't any answers it just is what it is and how we make ourselves feel and see through that, is what will determine how we move forward.

~ Nikki Rowe

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

~ Oscar Wilde

Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I make art when I can't gather the words to say.

~ Nikki Rowe

I'm not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person's gaze. You can almost always see where a person has been if you look hard enough.

~ Mo Hayder

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas, every bad moment gives them lessons.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

~ Salvador Dalí

The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

~ Criss Jami

History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

~ Kedar Joshi

There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.

~ Rhian J. Martin

People who mock incidents in history such as 9/11 or the Holocaust, referring to it all as a hoax or stirring up crazy conspiracy theories about it, should really stop and think about their words first, both because it shows flaws in logic and rationality to deny the obvious, and because to play pretend with incidents which killed innocent people, well, that's just like laughing in the face of tragedy. It's as if to say, no, it's not horrible enough that these people were killed, oh no, we have to drag on these incidents by indulging in melodramatic fantasies! In essence this means that those who lost loved ones not only have to live with these losses forever, they also have to live with the people who deny that any of it ever happened. It does no good to forget history or to deny it. All it does is desensitize people; it tells them that it's all just a game, which then risks the possibility of nobody taking it seriously enough to prevent something similar from happening again.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt