Quotes About Tragedy

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.

It's almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

I'd gotten someone killed.The price people seem to pay for crossing my path.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton.

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.

Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy.

I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

My life was a legacy of death and humor.

Legends of the Fall' is one of my favorite movies.

If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre.

I gave everything I had to give to 'Devdas.' I knew I would never make a better love story because there is none.