Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not… — Oscar Wilde
There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the… — John Piper
You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read… — Gary D. Schmidt
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. — Erma Bombeck
tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. — Salvador Dali
Humor is tragedy plus time. — Mark Twain
Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them. — Christopher Pike
And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried. — Erich Segal
Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art. — Kurt Cobain
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection. — Henry Adams
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. — Edgar Allan Poe
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a… — George Orwell
It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam… — Joe Meno
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. — Virginia Woolf
I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery… — Elizabeth Gilbert
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only… — Bertrand Russell
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. — Jennifer Weiner
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."… — John Fowles
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This… — Eckhart Tolle
By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make… — Diana Wynne Jones
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a… — Joseph Campbell
One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts.… — Marvin J. Ashton

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