Quotes About Tragedy

He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Whom the gods love dies young.

He is the vampire that had the greatest love of all times. And lost the greatest love of all times.

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.

There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time

With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.