1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Is it best to know about a child's death, even one so horrible, or to know that the child lives but that you will never, never see him again?

You cannot let all the world's tragedies into your heart. You'll drown. But the ones you do let in should count. Let them manifest action.

We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.

I think that there’s some thread of stubbornness that runs within us that says that the greater the tragedy the less we are willing to let it stand. And that’s one reason why I believe in our ability to take the tragedy of a world gone astray and knock the legs out from under it.

I cannot live in the new time anyway, because I belong to the old time, which is dead.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour