Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy.

Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies....

Twenty-five hundred is a terrible tragedy; Auschwitz it is not.

You’ve faced horrors in these past weeks… I don’t know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

When something is tragic you never really forget it.

Some have only been on campus a couple of weeks, … incredible tragedy.

Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done’t!” Macbeth

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

I don’t really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you’ll be back.I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how...

I listened as she talked, thinking that the worse the tragedy, the more people wanted to forget it–and the harder that became. Maybe that’s what made it tragic; not losing the person, but losing your...

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength...

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

We have to eat to live, and that’s our timeless tale of tragedy.

It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

When I run the world,librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would take it. Without hesitation I would take it all. Maybe that’s how you...

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.

Burke said. ”It’s a tragedy for the Snelgroves. It’s a tragedy for my client and for the other officers on the street that night.

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he...

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people’s failures.

We mourn with you in this moment of grief. Our hearts go out to the bright young men and women who were on that spacecraft. For us in India, we felt that since one of...

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can’t admire him because of them.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don’t kill your own dreams.

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with...

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar’s fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.

I had tried to express myself, but couldn’t do that because I was afraid that it will hurt someone. I never knew that not expressing myself hurt myself.

It’s easier, somehow, if there’s a reason for tragedy – lust or jealousy or hatred or revenge. We can find in these explanations an emotional tenor commensurate with the gravity of the act. There’s something...

In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”...

Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it!

Life requires us to do things anyway, despite what sort of fear or monster or tragedy or suffering lurks behind that anyway.

It appears as though President Bush wants to exploit this national tragedy to implement an ideological agenda. … What’s next, a special Social Security privatization zone?

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.

The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

The tragedy that happened at Lamar had a tremendous impact on us within the athletic department and at the university, as a whole. Like everything else, though, life must go on. I remember us coming...

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

This is a terrible tragedy.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

The women cried with one another, and it didn’t seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned.

could be a new tragedy for French farmers.

A darkness different from Ember’s, but just as frightening…