1,113 Quotes About Tragedy


  • Author Friedrich Hölderlin
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    When brother fled from brother, when lovers passedEach other by in ignorance, when fathers failedTo recognize their sons, when human words no more Were understood, nor human laws, that was whenThe meaning of it all assailed me and I trembled:It was my nation’s parting god!

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  • Author Tanith Lee
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    It would appear that those who win your love are greatly unfortunate." "Do not let it trouble you," said Azhrarn. "The misfortune is not yours.

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  • Author Jill Alexander Essbaum
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    In the short, sharp span of a single heartbeat, she knew that nothing she’d ever said or done, and nothing she would ever say or do again, would carry even half the tragedy of this.

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    Our tragedy is that first, we read nothing. If we read, we understand nothing. If we understand, we comply with nothing. We should pray, for the mercy, for ourselves.

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  • Author Cambria Covell
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    Tragedy doesn’t have any concept of timing. It doesn’t care if you’ve just fallen in love. Or if you’ve just gotten married. Gotten a new house. It will strike at anytime. Like a snake. Watching. Waiting. And you will never see it coming.

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  • Author 세월호 참사 당시 안산 합동분향소에 단원고 희생 학생을 딸로 둔 어느 어머니가 남기신 글
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    너는 돌 때 실을 잡았는데,명주실을 새로 사서 놓을 것을 왜 쓰던 걸 놓아서 이리 되었을까.엄마가 다 늙어 낳아서 오래 품지도 못하고 빨리 낳았어.한 달이라도 더 품었으면 사주가 바뀌어 살았을까?엄마는 모든 걸 잘못한 죄인이다.몇 푼 벌어 보겠다고 일 하느라 마지막 전화 못 받아서 미안해.엄마가 부자가 아니라서 미안해.없는 집에 너 같이 예쁜 애를 태어나게 해서 미안해....엄마가 지옥 갈게 딸은 천국에 가.

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  • Author Abiodun Fijabi
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    He had great ideas for change but was too busy with other things to pursue them. He postulated. He pontificated. He spoke glowingly of a great future for all. But he never actioned his words. He said that someday things would be better. But he never found one wrong thing that he could correct. He died unsung and left the society worst that he met it. It was a tragedy.

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