"It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone."
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Tragedy Quotes
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."
"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."
"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
"This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back."
"Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up."
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."
"When tragedy hits close to home, like your neighbor’s house, it really makes you stop and think. And while you’re thinking, I’ll be speeding off in the getaway car."
"Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy."
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."
"It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive."
"Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding."
"And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried."
"They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing."
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
"Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation."
"In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love."
"You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect."
"I can't go on, I'll go on."
"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."