Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day. — William Shakespeare
Nothing in his life became him like leaving it. — William Shakespeare
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh-… — Jean Webster
She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching… — Suzanne Collins
What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the… — Diane Arbus
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. — Orson Scott Card
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too… — Milan Kundera
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. — Jacob Bronowski
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that… — Aberjhani
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line. — J R Ward
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows… — Suzanne Collins
She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was… — Holly Black
At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we… — Holly Black
I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots… — David Wong
I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating… — John Green
But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy. — Francine Pascal
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion… — Ronald Reagan
Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your… — Pat Conroy
It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough. — T.H. White
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and… — Oscar Wilde
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope. — Elizabeth Bear
There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have… — Neil Gaiman
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we… — Charlie Chaplin

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