Tragedy Quotes

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'-her face was on a sudden distraught with pain-'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing.

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were forced to see the world for what it was?

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible; and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.

The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course.

He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.

Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.