1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

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 lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!