1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and fortune behind and go where the soul beckons without fearing the decisive outcome. I will travel in a world without boundaries and embrace danger and awe. I will stand as a witness to comedy, beauty, and tragedy and apply the principles of artistic and ascetic forms of awareness to overcome the inherent frustration of enduring a fundamentally painful human existence.

It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.

It's been so happy for us all to have you here, and I've tried not to think of - of the accounting that you and I, too, must give to the Duchesse. I cannot help feeling that you - that we shall pay dearly because you came with us and left her behind.""I always pay." He spoke evenly, but his brows drew together in a frown. "Sometimes I pay most for what I never had. I've been happy these few days, and at least that's something on my side of the ledger.

I pulled you from the waterAnd kept you in my bed.A lost, forsaken daughterOf a past that isn’t dead.Somehow love from sweet obsessionBranched and broke a heart of stone.Distrust became confession,Solemn vows of blood and bone.But in the wind, I hear the strain,Pilgrim soul that time has found.It moans to whisk you back again.Bid me follow, sweetly drown.Don’t go near the water, love.Stay away from strand or sea.You cannot walk on water, love.The lough will take you far from me.

Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.

OTHER lives may find their happiest moments infiltrated with tragedy, and their proudest touched with comedy. This had almost invariably been true of mine. My proudest hour found me, the newly elected president of the United Nations, perched atop three thick New York City telephone books given me in lieu of a cushion that I might see and be seen by the delegates below the podium.

I am a playwright who does not write comedies, or tragedies.

In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!

Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent.