Shirley Hazzard Quotes About Tragedy

Quotes about: Tragedy

• The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Confusion, Tragedy, Lasts

• The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Loss, Night, Tragedy

• Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Inspirational, Children, Real

  Shirley Hazzard (2003). “The Bay of Noon: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

• When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Mean, Thinking, Color

  Shirley Hazzard (1981). “The Bay of Noon”, Berkley Publishing Group

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