1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas; every bad moment gives them lessons.

Time, the thing we can't beat back... Yet, time is also what it takes to heal, what it takes for certain memory cells to die. Maybe time doesn't heal. Maybe it doesn't even pass. We pass through time, and come out stunned, so rage, and memory, are blurred.

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.