Tragedy Quotes

War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

~ Mark Lawrence

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.

~ Dawn Powell

A poet warrior realizes both the brutality and the beauty in life, and apprehends that the suffering we tragically endure is partly what makes us human. What also makes us human is the ability to love, the ability to stand in nature’s presence, and to nurture this earthly paradise to tend to our family’s needs.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

~ Joseph Conrad

He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.

~ Robin Hobb

Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy.

~ Debasish Mridha

You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty.

~ Debasish Mridha

But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over.

~ Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone.

~ James Lovegrove

I think you’re magicians because you’re unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

~ Lev Grossman

We declared war on one another's heart. And once the bombs dropped, & wars of words began, all that was left were the ruins of what was once everything. Something once so beautiful, that even those dull ruins held it's own tragic beauty all their own.

~ Trevor Driggers

My life is nothing more than bad timing separated by unimaginable moments of tragedy. I'd reconciled my pain with the promise of revenge ... until her.

~ Jewel E. Ann

I do not just want you at your best.I almost do not carewhere your Happiness lives,but please,let me visit your pain?Take me to the placewhere your sadness goes,and show me the tragedythat no one knows.

~ Meraaqi

Do not let other to love you if you really do not want as I know the trouble and pain of one side love.

~ Jayashan Adhikari

Tragedies can contain some of life’s greatest rewards and valuable lessons. Struggle makes you stronger. Pain makes you alert. Clouds bring forth the rain. As a wise man once said, ‘You seek problems because you need their gifts.’ Why would you rob someone of these benefits?

~ Brownell Landrum

When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Often, things are left unsaid. Everyone is guilty of thinking and feeling things... of loving or appreciating others... and of taking for granted that those others will just be there... to continue to share life's journey with...Then when one is gone... so quickly... all those things left unsaid... they matter more, because they were unspoken...Everyone fights their own battles inside themselves... often no one outside them even knows the wars that rage inside even those who they are closest to...I'd like to take the time, here and now, to tell all of you... those close to me, and those who aren't... those who matter so much... and those who have influenced me in even the smallest ways... all of you... that you matter. You are important. You are appreciated. Don't for a moment think otherwise. Don't, for even an instant, think or feel that you are not a wonder... a gift to the world... that makes it a better place to be... or that it would ever, in any way, be anything less than a tragedy for you to leave before your time.

~ Dennis Sharpe

They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsand everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closebecause it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.

~ Katelin Wagner

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

The tragedy of being, we believe all things but doubt the truth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family.” She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. “You still have a family,” she whispers.

~ Gayle Forman

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

~ Fredrik Backman

Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.

~ Edward Morris

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

~ Eugene O'neill

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

~ Taylor Swift

When the tragedy begins and the boat begins to sink. I will do everything in my power to help save my mates, if they refuse my help I have no choice but to jump ship to save myself

~ Ms. Bonnie Zackson Koury

Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power, and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.

~ Karl Jaspers

Newspapers take peoples’ tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

If we people become more helpful to others, there will be much less tragedy in the world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm. I try to brush it off as I've brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father when I was young, as I've brushed off so much since Benton has known me.

~ Patricia Cornwell

My mind is like a seaYou will only drown, If you think you can swimThere are things that devours me, No love can ever save me.

~ J. Limbu

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

~ Kamand Kojouri

There's something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn't exist & your not sure when it will return, but there's something beautiful in facing tragedy, a new type of being within you is born and one whom is more fearless than ever before.

~ Nikki Rowe

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

~ Nikki Rowe

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.

~ Nikki Rowe

if you let tragedy change you, You have already lost.

~ Nikki Rowe

The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Maybe that was why the French called orgasms “las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.

~ Nenia Campbell