Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your… — Virginia Woolf
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you… — Honore de Balzac
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a… — Arthur C. Clarke
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is,… — Dalai Lama
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are… — Albert Camus
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to… — George Eliot
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to… — Jean Webster
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it… — Simone de Beauvoir
The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle. — John Adams
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. — Anais Nin
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and… — Malcolm Lowry
Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate… — Susanna Kaysen
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people… — Douglas Coupland
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions:… — Mark Rothko
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you… — Haruki Murakami
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a… — Viktor E. Frankl
The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his… — Arnold Bennett
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . — Oscar Wilde
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to… — Paulo Coelho
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes… — Madeleine L'Engle
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. — Alan Paton

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