Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your… — Raymond E. Feist
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course… — Stephen King
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for… — Paulo Coelho
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness. — Jeanette Winterson
When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs… — Elizabeth Gilbert
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent… — Joseph Heller
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly… — Marisha Pessl
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. — Albert Camus
A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash… — Zadie Smith
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great… — Harold B. Lee
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing… — Carl Jung
Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the… — Mark Helprin
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy. — Dan Brown
It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again. — Libba Bray
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious… — Joan Lowery Nixon
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed… — Sinclair Lewis
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world… — Alan Lightman
Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt,… — Jay Asher
The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic. — Marilyn Manson
There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very… — Winston Churchill
After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate. — J R Ward
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or… — George R. R. Martin
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time… — John Steinbeck

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