Tragedy Quotes
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When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.
Cyril Tourneur
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This morning a terrible family tragedy has occurred, we are devastated to report that our beloved brother, son, and friend, Sawyer Sweeten, took his own life. He was weeks away from his 20th birthday. At this sensitive time, our family requests privacy and we beg of you to reach out to the ones you love.
Madylin Sweeten
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I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.
Donald Miller
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To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
Patrick Ness
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I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom
Carroll Quigley
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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
Alan Hovhaness
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As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
Susanne Langer
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I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.
Gen Urobuchi
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Joni Mitchell
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Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places - Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia - where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
William Shakespeare
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Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Lady Margaret Sackville
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The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe.
Andrew Cecil Bradley
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The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.
Nicholas Sparks
