1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

A civilization is glorious in its successes and tragic in its failures. An anti-civilization is terrifying in its successes and spectacular in its failures. A pseudo-civilization is annoying in its successes and ridiculous in its failures.

'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass.Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.

In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow,rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies.

How does a person deal with all the heartache and tragedy that fills their life without becoming insane or committing suicide?