Quotes About Tragedy

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

Daniel had ruined that couple's life. Killed their daughter. All because he'd been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

David Williamson's Pennsylvania militia brought Clark's dismaying vision to life in 1782 at Gnadenhutten when they herded nearly ninety Christianized Delaware Indians into two cabins and systematically beat them to death.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.