Quotes About Tragedy

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

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

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.

Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you - thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies.

The towers fell, and the first thing that went through my head was my dad's voice: 'Well, you brought a new life into the world, and the world's over. Nice timing, numbnuts!

I sometimes think that never blows so redThe Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;That every Hyacinth the Garden wearsDropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us.