1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

THE VOICE OF SALOME:Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Iokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on thy lips. Was it the taste of blood?... Nay; but perchance it was the taste of love... They say that love hath a bitter taste... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth, Iokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth.

Now enter, single file, the hosts who died early on,in Acts 3 and 4, or between scenes.The miraculous return of all those lost without a trace. The thought that they’ve been waiting patiently offstagewithout taking off their makeupor their costumesmoves me more than all the tragedy’s tirades.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

But if the blood inside you is on the inside of someone else, you never want to see it on the outside of them.

I look up upon a sparsely starred abyssHaving wandered to this street cornerIn the middle of the nightWatching the cars and people go byWonderingIf this deep, black nothingnessIs the sum total of being human.

You've been there on my mind for so long, I want to forget you sometimes.

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible; and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.

What if you're the angel I sought and me the ghost you loved, and we both knew, we belong to different place.