Tragedies Quotes

“Because improbable tragedies create improbable superheroes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

“In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The road of life is filled with sunshine and clouds, black and white, triumphs and tragedies. As we continue down the road, we decide which things we bring with us, and which we leave in the rear-view mirror.”
― Julie-Anne

“The greatest tragedies in life is not untimely death, but to live a life for emptiness”
― Topsy Gift

“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.”
― Helen Gardner

“But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“One of the greatest tragedies of life is to work your life away only to realise later that you never really did live”
― Topsy Gift

“They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Life is a sentence without any fullstops.”
― Danish Sayanee

“My problem is that I still believe that love actually does exist when clearly it doesn't. Love today is just an Idea, a word that people toss around and with time has broken it's meaning. The real mean of love now a days is "APPRECIATION" a word that should be use to describe the feeling that most people have, but is not powerful enough to get someone into bed!”
― Jonathan Antonio Tom

“Oh, as the tragedies of Shakespeare have revealed, the fall of kings is but fodder for the riches entertainments.”
― Robert Alexander, The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

“Our tragedies as fleeting as our smiles. Our futures not etched in stone, but drawn in sand.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Post-Millennium Rhapsody

“Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.”
― Iain M. Banks, Matter

“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

“May grace abound to you; you overcome any challenging situation.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Think Great: Be Great!

“Tragedies of this world behave like the storms of the vast oceans! While you are inside this storm, let your mind stand upright like a lighthouse!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so, in what way/s?”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“Shakespearean tragedies do not deal chiefly with the working-class people and focus mostly on the fall of the kings, princes, generals etc. because a beggar has nothing to lose but if a king loses everything suddenly and gets poor, then the readers or audience become so sad and feel like crying in the end!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“The pressure of past tragedies drove him forward - the need to escape reminders of his losses, and the desire to be somewhere other than where he'd been. That, and a smoldering desire for revenge.”
― Cinda Williams Chima