1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

I wrote in a bedroom crowded with ghosts," Brooke Hayward says. "My mother would disapprove, and my father would be horrified. The moral of my book is that you pay for everything. They were rich, accomplished, famous and beautiful. We were drowned in privilege, yet it ended in all this hideous tragedy." (interview from People magazine (May 23, 1977)

Your life is not a tragedy. It’s history, and it’s yours.

She'd been conceived as a goddess of justice. But this wasn't just.It wasn't right.And her husband's wrongful death would not go unavenged.Kissing cold lips Bathymaas laid him on the ground and covered his body with her cloak.Artemis gasped and shrank away from her as she rose to her feet and turned towards Apollo and his mother.For this, there would be hell to pay.And hers would be the hand that gathered the payment.

I will never forget what you did to me. I will never forgive it. I will never stop mourning what you stole from me. But I realize now I can't steal it back and I'm done spending every day trying to.

My mind is like a seaYou will only drown, If you think you can swimThere are things that devours me, No love can ever save me.

Before my father's grave, I sit alone.Upon some sheets of grimy paper, I writeMy tale, the most dreaded of known tales, A tale whose grisly facts poured outAcross the plains of vast Arabia.

O my people, whenever ye drinkA drop of water, remember me.Or if ye hear of butchered menAnd headless stiffs, surrender thee;For I am the one who lies in shredsWhere my cruel foes dismembered me!

Often when you think the storm is over it has really just begun.

It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit!