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Quotes About Tragedy

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
~ Plautus
Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
~ Ben Affleck
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.
~ C. S. Lewis
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I don't know what to say, except I love Ryan Dunn and I'm really going to miss him.
~ Steve-O
To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.
~ Timberlake Wertenbaker
We love disasters that have nothing to do with us
~ Mark Doty
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
~ Milan Kundera
The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.
~ Kevin Nash
With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.
~ Louise Imogen Guiney
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
~ Dario Argento
Death was like love, a romantic escape.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
~ Albert Camus
What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
~ William Shakespeare
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
~ William Shakespeare
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
~ Ben Kingsley
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
~ Cab Calloway
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.
~ Ian Shoales
We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Loving her was heaven that turned to hell when she died.
~ Jonathon Scott Fuqua