Quotes About Tragedy

the tragic death of a famous lady mountaineer,

More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe. But fine things too. The best ones.

Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can choose how we want them to change us.

It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Every memory becomes a golden treasure to us when we have lived our lives with tragedy and triumphs, sadness and happiness.

There is no life without change. The real tragedy is that we are always fearful of change and resist it vehemently.

The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

Animosity killed the elephant.

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Han pasado tres semanas y aún me culpo de su muerte a todas horas, aunque Tom –el psicólogo con el que estoy haciendo terapia– dice que no fui responsable. Y, en el fondo, lo sé. Pero no puedo sacarme de la cabeza la idea de que si lo hubiera encontrado antes, si no lo hubiera dejado solo en el mar, si hubiera entrado con él en el agua, si no hubiéramos bebido o, incluso, si no hubiera luchado por conquistarlo, él ahora estaría vivo.

le dice «Te quiero», pero se aborrece por ello. Es un amor malsano, que sólo puede traer la desgracia.

De la alcoba salía un olor a carne quemada tan intenso que casi le hizo vomitar. Al pie de la cama había un cadáver que aún humeaba. De la mano que intentara empuñar a Zemal quedaba tan solo quedaban tan solo los huesos de dos dedos ; el resto eran cenizas.

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout--not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout.

Every suicide is a solution to a problem.

Marriage does not serve primarily to accommodate or to mitigate social tragedy of this sort. Its principal function is to prevent or limit the occurrence of such tragedies in the first place.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.