Quotes by category:Tragedy

Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here." Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. "God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it?" Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room.

zsadist tragedy thinking

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not... by Judy Blundell

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

return tragedy simple

Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.

unique tragedy knowing

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

Joyce Carol Oates

serious-subjects tragedy thinking

I love you." Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella... by J.R. Ward

I love you." Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella.

eye tragedy love-you

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject t... by J.R. Ward

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

whim fate tragedy

He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.

smile tragedy would-be

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy. by Joyce Meyer

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

triumph tragedy want

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.

tragedy attitude character

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman. by Julian Tuwim

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.

falling-in-love tragedy faces

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

farce tragedy doe

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Juliette Binoche

being-sad tragedy character

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?

Justine Bateman

gun tragedy air

I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph. by Kanye West

I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

champion triumph tragedy

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

bats caves tragedy

He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.

Karen Armstrong

literary-theory tragedy people

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

fate tragedy father

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

farce historical tragedy

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

tragedy greek philosophy

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die a... by Katharine Kerr

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

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