1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said thatevery mushroom cloud has a silver lining.

Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.

Joy is much sweeter for having known sorrow; and triumph for having tasted defeat.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

The whole world was out there, but I was in my mother's arms, and I didn't know it yet.

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

I make art when I can't gather the words to say.

Father! Father!' the boy called repeatedly, but the man remained lifeless in his arms.The horrified boy felt hopeless, deprived of any basis for understanding as to what had happened. Now he was left alone, without answers or any help, desperate to do something to help his father. Tierney didn’t know what to do. Confused and terrified, the boy cradled his father’s limp body in his arms and wept bitterly.