1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

A lot of tragedy would be averted if people didn’t confuse trust with love. I expect my clients to trust me. I really don’t care if they hate me. ~ Brandon Hull

History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

Shakespearean tragedies do not deal chiefly with the working-class people and focus mostly on the fall of the kings, princes, generals etc. because a beggar has nothing to lose but if a king loses everything suddenly and gets poor, then the readers or audience become so sad and feel like crying in the end!

After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!

Maybe by making up his own history, he could make the tragedy of it all make sense. Maybe he could write reason into it.

I shall carve the name of every stolen plotAnd where the village boundaries lay;What homes exploded,What trees uprooted, what tiny wildflowers crushed.All this to remember. And I'll keep on carve=ingEach act of this my tragedy, each phase of the catastrophe,All things, minor and major,On an olive tree in the courtyard of my home.

If this were a domestic tragedy, and it might well be, this would be your fatal flaw--your memory, vessel of your feelings.