1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Our word Tragedy comes from the Greek, tragos-ode: “The song of the goat.” Anybody who has ever heard a goat attempt to sing will know why.

Comedy Born :) When Tragedy Happens :(

He's sleeping, Mr. Kim." Sehun muttered. "Don't disturb him.

You'll find that great artists don't love, live, fuck or even die like ordinary people. Because they always have their art. It nourishes them more than any connection to people. Whatever human tragedy befalls them, they're never too gutted, because they need only to pour the tragedy into their vat, stir in the other lurid ingredients, blast it over a fire. What emerges will be even more magnificent than if the tragedy had never occurred.

See? Memories aren't happy, they're sad. Don't you know anything?

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters.

Life simply blew through her.

Someone must have talked plenty, because on an afternoon in June 2008, Sarvannantha Pereira was detained by men who didn't say who whey were. They would call it an arrest. It felt more like an abduction.