1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.

A moment is never long enough to account for tragedy when you are in it.

There was something virile in her attitude toward tragedy, as though she were defying God to knock off the chip He Himself had placed on her shoulder.

Soon his body was quiet.

With you I could live, without you I was already dead.

When the sun has been destroyed for a man, what comfort is there in a world of moonlight?

It will be your deepest tragedy that will give you the courage to fly.

Late in November, Lenny took off for his eagerly anticipated job in Chicago. It had been nearly a year since he played the chilly city, and those who hadn't seen him for that period, or even longer, were shocked at the change in his appearance. The once handsome, animated, brilliant performer and commentator was now a fat, bent, shabby-looking street loafer, a horribly dissipated, baggy-eyed, numb-fleshed junkie, with a tragic darkness in his eyes.

And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray over the human misery now in the world. The common lot of men binds us to each other and if we will, we may pluck virtue from tragedy.