Tragedy Quotes

The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is perpetual sorrow, grief, and misery. Suffering is part of living. Life begins joyously and regretfully ends in tragedy. The cold realities of the world triumphantly crush each one of us. Between birth and death is comedic conjugation, the haunting prelude to the end of the self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known life did not resemble one of her book stories or Moria's bard tales, and yet there was a part of her that hoped it did. The more she saw, the more she realized she was wrong. People made up stories because that is what they wanted from their world. A place where goodness, kindness, and honor were rewarded. They were not rewarded. The people of Edgewood could attest to that. - Sea Of Shadows

~ Kelly Armstrong

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I've found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to tip the scales.

~ Dave Matthes

Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I still remember my childhood. Some people are vegans. I have common sense.Some people call me Maurice. Some people call me the Gangsta of Love. Some people just want to live...but me, I'm the one still alive.

~ Dave Matthes

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

~ W.b. Yeats

Joy is much sweeter for having known sorrow, and triumph for having tasted defeat.

~ Jocelyn Murray

I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

~ Paula Heller Garland

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

~ Debasish Mridha

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

~ Anne Carson

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

~ John Fowles

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

~ Diane Samuels

I don't want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?

~ Diane Samuels

...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

~ Virginia Woolf

I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed because there was another word that was my opposite, and without it I was nothing. I gained meaning only by acknowledging that possible other.Nida

~ Faiqa Mansab

It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one drifts through life unimpeded.Bhanggi

~ Faiqa Mansab

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

~ Johnny Rich

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.

~ Christy A. Campbell

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.

~ Marty Rubin

Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent.

~ Elizabeth Cary

Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

~ Elizabeth Czukas

Out of every tragedy, he said, comes new strength.

~ Rick Riordan

I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.This is the duality of loss.

~ Christina Rasmussen

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Well, this has been some shit.

~ Pat Shand

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

~ Milan Kundera

If tragedy never entered our lives, we wouldn't appreciate the magic.

~ Nikki Rowe

Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms of human life by incidents which in fact involve unhappiness. For it is by them that the futility of escape can be made evident in the drama. This remorseless inevitableness is what pervades scientific thought. The laws of physics are the decrees of fate.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Everyone wears masks.They come in all different shapes and sizes.The only problem with trying one on is that it fits. How easily we fall into the trap that we don’t have to be who we really are.How easily we convince ourselves that we need to cover up what we were born to be.It’s a tragedy that fear keeps us from our destiny.It’s hell when the person you were created to be is covered up by some cheap imposter

~ Rachel Van Dyken

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

~ Philip Roth

... misfortune and creativity go together.

~ Cirilo F. Bautista

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, What is important to me now?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Of everythingI have ever endured,YOUareMy Favourite Tragedy.

~ Meraaqi

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger - Billy Connolly

~ Sherry Marie Gallagher

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

~ Oscar Wilde

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible, and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.

~ Alice Hoffman

So be careful when you bend over.

~ Charles Bukowski

One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.

~ J. Loren Norris