1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.

Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life.

Pedras žinojo tai, ką žino kiekvienas tikras klounas: jog juokas - ištikimiausias tragedijos palydovas.

Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

The definition of tragedy is when people do not communicate yet struggle to conceal the pain.

And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.