Top Tragedy Quotes

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Tragedy Definition

(n.) A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.

(n.) A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons...

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

I had tried to express myself, but couldn't do that because I was afraid that it will hurt someone. I never knew that not expressing myself hurt myself.

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.

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 t...

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

I wrote in a bedroom crowded with ghosts," Brooke Hayward says. "My mother would disapprove, and my father would be horrified. The moral of my book is that you pay for everything. They were rich, acco...

Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

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

Everybody wants love but not everyone wants to love.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

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

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between inc...

Die Welt ist nirgends außer diesen Mauern;Nur Fegefeuer, Qual, die Hölle selbst.Von hier verbannt, ist aus der Welt verbannt,Und solcher Bann ist Tod: Drum gibst du ihmDen falschen Namen. - Nennst du...

The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead...

Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".

Live a life abundant in love and rich in spirit, these are the seeds of a fulfilling existence. Be the safe harbor you seek in the world. Follow your dreams, not your fear. Go into the New Year with a...