1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Early tragedy is no excuse for cynicism and apathy.

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.