Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

Tragedies come in the hungry hours. — Virginia Woolf
But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy. — Garth Nix
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why it’s hard to… — Bill Watterson
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think… — Philip K. Dick
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death,… — Johnny Cash
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would… — Tana French
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. — George Orwell
Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next… — Nora Roberts
Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the… — Mira Grant
I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone… — Ilona Andrews
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom… — Andrea Dworkin
I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that… — Shane Claiborne
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life. — Henry Miller
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. — Steven Herrick
The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of… — Michael Gurian
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am ,… — Muriel Barbery
However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our… — Paulo Coelho
Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body. — Jane Urquhart
And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen. — Jay Asher
Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the… — Jeanette Winterson
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time… — Fulton J. Sheen
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. — Haruki Murakami
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on… — Ronald J. Sider
There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of… — Anthony Kiedis

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