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Quotes About Tragedy

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
~ Dorothy Rothschild Parker
There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder
~ Octave Mirbeau
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, OK Jerry?
~ Denis Leary
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
~ James Branch Cabell
All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
~ Lord Byron
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Crown Prince Walther of Morrighan was dead... Silence choked the crowd for a moment and then mother after mother, sister, father, wife, brother, fell to their knees.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Seeing Malich dead was suddenly a very small victory. The satisfaction trickled away, like his blood across the floor. His death only gave me an ending-it didn´t give back what had been taken.
~ Mary E. Pearson
De duchessa is dood. - Silvia
~ Mary Hoffman
Tragedy is simpler than uncertainty. Not easier, but simpler.
~ Mary Jo Putney
I shall have to miss forever some beautiful, wonderful things because of that wretched, lonely childhood. There will always be a lacking, a wanting -- some dead branches that never grew leaves. It is not deaths and murders and plots and wars that make life tragedy. It is day after day, and year after year, and Nothing. It is a sunburned little hand reached out and Nothing put into it.
~ Mary MacLane
La dame aux camélias.
~ Unknown
Many prominent families were affected by this disaster and would in time build the beautiful chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Consolation on the spot, as a memorial to their lost loved ones.
~ Unknown
it happened yesterday. I still couldn't believe I had actually took somebody's life, especially since death had caused me so much grief. I'd lost my first wife, Maggie, and our twenty-one-year-old-son, Claude, on the same day a little over a year ago.
~ Unknown
broke into my house in the middle of the night and barged into our bedroom with a gun in her hand, she was the one who ended up dead. Even though I had accidentally shot her during a scuffle, we agreed that the best thing for us to do was to cover it up.
~ Unknown
No experience can ever be repeated, and in this fact we find all the tragedy of life and at the same time its glory—its irrepressible movement.
~ Mary Parker Follett
set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts
~ Mary Pope Osborne
People try to save special things but they did not always succeed. Rare books from a library were moved to a Pavilion building. When the Pavilion building caught fire, all the books burned. The building that originally held them did not burn at all.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy-and that is as well, for one could not bear it-whose grief is that the principals never met.
~ Mary Renault
It is a grief to see a hero go down to the house of Hades. It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
~ Mary Renault
One of the greatest tragedies in human interaction is that we believe 'will' can change everything—it can't.
~ Unknown