Top Tragedy Quotes

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...

Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept...

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.

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

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...

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

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

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.

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...

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

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

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lustLike diamonds we are cut with our own dust

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...

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...

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.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.