Quotes About Tragedy

Fill the pages of your life with the exciting story of triumph and tragedy, failure and victory, desire and discovery.

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

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Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

If I've learned one thing about a woman: they'll get over every damn single tragedy without losing the charm of their smile.

Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable.

We are so desperate to be in love with someone else that we forget to love ourself...what a tragedy!

Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us.

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.