Tragedy Quotes

“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 meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit!”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.”
― Harlan Coben, Tell No One

“In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

“I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world”
― Ron Rash, Serena

“If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said that
every mushroom cloud has a silver lining.”
― Adam Young Owl City Cave In

“TEIRESIAS:
Alas, how terrible is wisdom when
it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies

“To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.”
― Amy Denise

“For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he’d never even seen.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 6: The Sunlit Garden Where It Began, Part 2

“Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.”
― Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep

“Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.”
― Chris Crutcher, Chinese Handcuffs

“Va, je ne te hais point.”
― Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

“My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.”
― Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy

“It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There is something more dangerous than the death of one’s body. It is “the undiscovered self”; being alive without knowing why.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries.”
― Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

“Tragedy's language stresses that whatever is within us is obscure, many faceted, impossible to see. Performance gave this question of what is within a physical force. The spectators were far away from the performers, on that hill above the theatre. At the centre of their vision was a small hut, into which they could not see. The physical action presented to their attention was violent but mostly unseen. They inferred it, as they inferred inner movement, from words spoken by figures whose entrances and exits into and out of the visible space patterned the play. They saw its results when that facade opened to reveal a dead body. This genre, with its dialectics of seen and unseen, inside and outside, exit and entrance, was a simultaneously internal and external, intellectual and somatic expression of contemporary questions about the inward sources of harm, knowledge, power, and darkness.”
― Ruth Padel, In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self

“JOCASTA:
So clear in this case were the oracles,
so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;
what God discovers need of, easily
he shows to us himself.”
― Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies

“OEDIPUS:
O, O, O, they will all come,
all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me
look upon you no more after today!
I who first saw the light bred of a match
accursed, and accursed in my living
with them I lived with, cursed in my killing.”
― Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies

“Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.”
― Edward Morris, Blood of Eden

“He remembered being blinded by his father's light. He remembered refusing to abandon his brothers and sisters, beneath a blue sky at high-sun, far from the city of Desh'ea. He remembered the mechanical thunder of absolute betrayal, when he was stolen from the death he'd so richly earned.

He remembered the cold moment of truth as he stood in the dark, his hurting eyes healing, that every day he breathed was an unwanted gift. He was walking another man's destiny now. His destiny was to be with the men and women who needed him, who called for him, who followed him into the mountains, and died without him. A destiny denied.

He was Angron of Desh'ea. After that, nothing mattered. He'd listened to the others that begged him, that needed it all to matter. He'd played their games, living another man's life. He'd led his fleets, he'd embraced his sons, he'd told himself that blood was thicker than water, and that the Eaters of Worlds were the army he wanted and the horde he deserved. He'd sustained himself on lies, letting none see how he starved.

And he served in his cold-hearted father's empire, enduring the silent sneers of brothers he despised.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Betrayer

“Eğer gönüller gerçekten aydınlıksa, güneş ışığına gerek kalmaz.Başkalarının esirgediği şeyi biz kendi kalbimizde buluyoruz..”
― Goethe, Faust

“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.”
― Solange nicole

“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.”
― Barry B. Powell, Classical Myth

“The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdogs

“The human race has the capacity to render itself extinct unless alternatives are found to the patterns of intraspecific warfare that have dominated civilized history. Ours has long been a predatory species. Living, for humans, depends upon the ability to kill as clearly as it does for lions or wolves. But lions and wolves, like almost all predatory species, normally limit their killing to prey animals, and they are equipped with elaborate ritual precautions to prevent the destruction of their own kind. Humans appear to be unique among predators in their enthusiasm to destroy members of their own species. Perhaps this unusual behavior can be attributed to some genetic deficiency which may lead humans ultimately to join the rest of nature's failures in the biological graveyard of extinction. Or perhaps our willingness to kill ourselves, like so many of our other problems, is something we have devised by misusing our enlarged brains.”
― Joseph W. Meeker

“Sözlerinizde ki öfkeyi anlıyorum.
Ama sözlerinizi değil...”
― William Shakespeare, Othello