The skies give no warning when they fall.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust

How one tragedy affects so many others.

It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up–but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I’ll take A Midsummer Night’s Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a...

I followed many conversations about what happened in Norway and the death of Amy Winehouse because they happened one after the next. Too many of those conversations tried to conflate the two events, tried to...

You don’t have to be strong to survive a bad situation; you simply need a plan.

The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

When I was a teenager in Boston, a man on the subway handed me a card printed with tiny pictures of hands spelling out the alphabet in sign language. I AM DEAF, said the card....

Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. Loving an animal, a horse, cat, or dog, was always a romantic tragedy. It meant loving something...

I watched a truck go up in flames. It was hauling cigarettes. It was the first tragedy I’ve ever smoked.

Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsand everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closebecause it is never romantic...

How could it be? For weeks he’d run himself ragged, his only goal to keep her safe until the moment when he could no longer offer her protection. Now that moment had come and gone-...

{On the death of Hale’s esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank. Burbank was much beloved by the population unil in an interview he revealed that he was an atheist. After this, the public turned...

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended. God tells then they have been guilty of misrepresenting God. Only Job – only angry, defiant, doubting Job has...

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

With pain I learned about the tragedy that has struck your family, … You have lost the most loyal and devoted friend. Gone is a wonderful person, a beautiful woman, a loving wife and mother.

These children have suffered a most violent trauma. We must help them to be able to forget the tragedy so that they will be witnesses of peace for the future of humanity.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.

The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!

It’s hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace.

Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

The ring which you are holding, my friend, is identical to that one. I had it cut according to the model of the king’s ring, and damascened in Spain. The original is still in the...

In Greek tragedy, you can’t go down crying,

Be kind to everyone, everyone is going through something

Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife...

In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.

Tragedy’s language stresses that whatever is within us is obscure, many faceted, impossible to see. Performance gave this question of what is within a physical force. The spectators were far away from the performers, on...

I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life...

He’s been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn’t so cruel.

I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible; and all of the scars will remain under...

The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you’re already dead but no one pronounced you dead…

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

LARRY–(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I’m afraid to live, am I?–and even more afraid to die! So I sit here, with my pride drowned on...

My life’s misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

tragedy waiting to happen.