Tragedy Quotes - Page 2

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard - let alone answered?

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

Misunderstanding and distrust - the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.

If she’s gonna love again, it won’t be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers.

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.