Tragedy Quotes - Page 8

• People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Virtue, Protagonists

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.214, Random House

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• The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

  James Carlos Blake

  Men, Self Knowledge, Knows

  James Carlos Blake (2017). “The Friends of Pancho Villa: A Novel”, p.7, Grove Press

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• We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Native American, Destiny, Imagination

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• That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

  Agatha Christie

  Great Love, Stories, Love Story

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• 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 he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

  Carl Jung

  Distance, Men, Cocoons

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

  Orson Scott Card

  Imagination, Bed, Body

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.8, Macmillan

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• That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.

  Ben Sherwood

  Grief, Math, Two

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.267, Bantam

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• Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Revenge, Past, Together

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• Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Night, Long

  1606 Malcolm. Macbeth, act 4, sc.3, l.242.

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• Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Leaving, Important Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• I think whenever you go through something of that nature, you get to see who's really on your side and who's really there for you. That happened in my case. And it really let me understand that no matter how small of a decision you make, it's going to have a subsequent action or reaction, and something that started out very innocent turned into the tragedy that it was.

  Donte Stallworth

  Thinking, Decision, Action

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• Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life, Dies

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.479, Macmillan

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• There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Doors, Scientist, Claims

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Stitches, Bleeding

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

  Aberjhani

  Creative, Helping, Comedy

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Minors

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• In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

  Charlie Chaplin

  Attitude, Laughing, Insane

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• This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Order, Important, Woe

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• Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hungry, Hours

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

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• There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pain, Loss, Unique

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• I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better - Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos - so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.

  Tana French

  Book, Thinking, Years

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, January 30, 2007.

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• I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

  Johnny Cash

  Love, Mother, Song

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• It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

  George Orwell

  Half, Way, Late

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Thinking, Tragic

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Divine Invasion”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.

  Nora Roberts

  Party, Next Steps, Might

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.221, Penguin

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