Quotes About Tragedy

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Only the young die good.

Age 67. — Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young — I mean, for a whole day at a time.

Cuervos sobre la llanura sembrada de muertos, como en las viejas baladas.

Najbednija i najtragi?nija od svih ?ovekovih slabosti nesumnjivo je njegova potpuna nesposobnost predvi?anja, koja je u oštroj protivnosti sa tolikim njegovim darovima, veštinama i znanjima.

She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.

Murder did that. Took lives, crushed others, changed still others forever.

The dead aren't the only victims.

taught him never to look at skin—the color of skin is nothing. We're all God's children. He was a good boy. I told him, he had to work, that all of us must earn our way. So he took the work there, there where they killed him. Because I told him to.

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por qué precisamente su hijo, mientras los otros noventa y nueve siguen incólumes, jugando y disfrutando? Le parece monstruoso que la oscuridad haya engullido a David, que no haya indignación, ni clamor, que nadie se arranque los cabellos ni rechine los dientes, que el mundo siga girando sobre su eje como si nada hubiera ocurrido.

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

I love you. Z squeezed his eyes shut. Don't be a tragedy, Bella.

Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here. Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it? Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room.

That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they'd recently added a Tragedy line.

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate. No matter what your skin color was or how much money you had, whether you were gay or straight, or an atheist or a true believer, from where she stood, everyone was equal. And loved by someone, somewhere.

If deaths came in threes . . . he thought numbly. Who was going to be the third one?

Tragedy, like love, makes people blind.