71 quotes found
“Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire l...”
“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”
“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”
“It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.”
“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.”
“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
“Falling so madly in love with you is a tragedy. Nothing in my world will ever seem so beautiful again.”
“They were people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it that kept them together, and let other peopl...”
“Ive read so many stories online about how tragedy brings people together, how hard times encourage bravery and sacrifice, how a crisis can turn ordinary folks into heroes. But what about the opposi...”
“in your dream, you are jealous of tragedies.and the truth is, we all want our own tragedy, because life is pale without it.we want the teeth, the screaming.the survivalthat comes with it.”
“It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.”
“ALL LOSSES IN THIS WORLD ARE DUE TO A LACK OF ABILITY. IF YOU WANT TO CURSE SOMETHING, CURSE YOUR OWN WEAKNESS”
“Jun Do had dealt with this his whole life, the ways it was impossible for people from normal families to conceive of a man in so much hurt that he couldnt acknowledge his own son, that there was no...”
“See? Memories aren't happy, they're sad. Don't you know anything?”
“We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.”
“A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.”
“Someone must have talked plenty, because on an afternoon in June 2008, Sarvannantha Pereira was detained by men who didn't say who whey were. They would call it an arrest. It felt more like an abdu...”
“Like so many of our neighbors who latched onto tragedy to stand out from the crowd -- slavery, incest, a suicide -- I had exaggerated the ethnic chip on my shoulder for effect. I've learned since t...”
“I salute you as the Gates of Death”
