1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

L'humain, comme l'épice, ne se révèle que broyé

How many ancient myths begin with the rescue of an abandoned child! If Polybus hadn't taken in the young Oedipus, Sophocles wouldn't have written his most beautiful tragedy!

What was more tragic, the lives people lived, or the deaths they died?

Believing that everything happens for a reason does not invalidate tragedy, nor does it justify rough times. If life were a broken vase, the pieces would not be disqualified from being parts of a whole for being incomplete. Trust the journey, and you will eventually find peace in the pieces.Find peace in the pieces.

..голова Медузы не так страшна, как закон причинности.

Наши современники не хотят искать и потому так много разговаривают о теории познания.

Every tragedy consists in tying and untying of a knot.

But she was wrong. Loneliness was insidious. It knew no border or boundary, was without mercy, and couldn’t be bribed. That was what Mary had attempted to do, bargain with the deep well of pain within her by marrying a man who by his own word would never love her.

Nothing bad has ever really happened to her. She doesn't know things can change at any moment, that the bottom can drop out of the world. And that's a good thing. Of course it is. I wish I didn't know that, either.