1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds.

Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade.

We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next. Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn’t care. ‘He’s alive!’ Blue said again ‘He’s breathing!’ ‘I can’t see him breathing.

It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.

You're the sunrise to my eyes every morning.