Tragedy Quotes

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
Jane: Goodyear?
Frank: No, the worst.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

How much blood must be spilled? How many tears shall we cry? How many mothers' hearts must be maimed?

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude…by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep the pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God