Quotes about Tragedy
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
— Henry David Thoreau
Life flows swiftly by and sometimes through tragedies, but it keeps flowing on.
— Dee Henderson
She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.
— Emily Bronte
She might have been living yet, if it had not been for him!
— Emily Bronte
For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?
— Epictetus
People kill for love. They die for love.
— Helen Fisher
It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
— Bernice King
Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.
— Joseph Campbell
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
— Pope John Paul II
Greek mythology tells of a beautiful youth who loved no one until the day he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with that reflection. He was so lovesick, he finally wasted away and died, and was turned into a flower that bears his name — Narcissus.
— Kent Hughes
lost her only son—and Elijah to blame.
— RT Kendall
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.
— Bob Goff