Tragedy Quotes

Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.

~ Pam Jones

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.

~ Robert Black

He's opening a door, but he already knows I won't walk through. The power of Bodee is in the way he reads me, sees through me, and then understands the truth behind the facade. He's the guy who can walk straight through the House of Mirrors on the first try. It's almost annoying. No one should ride tragedy like a pro surfer while I drown.

~ Courtney C. Stevens

If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would take it. Without hesitation I would take it all. Maybe that’s how you know you love someone. When you actually feel each tear they cry as if they were your own. When you feel each cut, each bruise, each hit as if you’re the one suffering. I bled for him.& in turn, he bled for her.Funny, how life comes full circle

~ Rachel Van Dyken

Sometimes by holding onto what you love the most — you end up choking the very life from the thing you want to keep on living. It’s possible to try too hard, to love something so deeply that you lose yourself. The danger is never in loving someone — but losing your identity in the process. Because what happens when tragedy strikes? You’re left an empty shell. You’re left with nothing.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

But I had deliberately acquired the habit of closing my eyes even to such obvious assumptions, just as though I did not want to miss a single opportunity for tormenting myself. This is a trite device, often adopted by persons who, cut off from all other means of escape, retreat into the safe haven of regarding themselves as objects of tragedy.

~ Yukio Mishima

If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, he's mine or I am his.

~ William Shakespeare

Life is a mystical and tragic thing. It is a journey often full of fear, when it ought to be full of hope. It's fascinating to look back on your life and feel as though most of it was a precursor to the rest of it; to what was always supposed to be.

~ L.k. Hill

Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ Arthur Miller

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan

~ Anne Carson

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

~ Ace Antonio Hall

She thought men were saviors......And she looked for more in them than what they were...Only to rescue herself from those she wished would rescue her...And isn't that the most tragic lie...The lie where we tell what we wished were true and believe it...?She had an artificial memory, a prosthesis to a past that never was...She was like a party that no one ever went to...Like a cure...without a disease...And isn't that the greatest fear of all...to be ready with the answersto questions that no one asks anymore?

~ Merrit Malloy

So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.

~ William Shakespeare

Every normal family is one tragedy away from complete implosion.

~ Katja Millay

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

~ Paulo Coelho

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

~ Cristina García

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Any deal that recognizes Iran right to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.

~ Travis Beacham

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

~ Jodi Picoult

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOUWhen I hold a rose,I see the soft, velvety petalsand smile, becausetucked betweenthose precious petalsis a special gift -the one of a fragrance,pure and sweet.When you hold a rose,you see the thornsalong the stem,and you frownbecause those thornscan bring you painand cause you to bleed.I see the gift.You see the tragedy.More and moreI fear that one of these dayssomeone will hand me a roseand all I will seeare thorns.Talk about tragedy.

~ Lisa Schroeder

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex being a great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not because of laziness or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an inevitable irony results....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

~ Haruki Murakami

People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

~ Lee Smith

How could it be? For weeks he'd run himself ragged, his only goal to keep her safe until the moment when he could no longer offer her protection. Now that moment had come and gone- and so did Luce

~ Lauren Kate

Comedies are fit for common wits: But to present a kingly troop withal, Give me a stately-written tra

~ Thomas Kyd

A few weeks ago, Abdul had seen a boy’s hand cut clean off when he was putting plastic into one of the shredders. The boy’s eyes had filled with tears but he hadn’t screamed. Instead he’d stood there with his blood-spurting stump, his ability to earn a living ended, and started apologizing to the owner of the plant. “Sa’ab, I’m sorry,” he’d said to the man in white. “I won’t cause you any problems by reporting this. You will have no trouble from me.

~ Katherine Boo

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

~ Brandon Sanderson

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.

~ Margaret Atwood

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.

~ Mervyn Peake

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.

~ Mo Yan

Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previouslydied in a car accident.

~ Anthony Liccione

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

~ Henry Miller

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds.

~ Steve Maraboli

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

~ Steven Herrick

As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.

~ Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

~ James Carlos Blake

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

~ Tom Perrotta