100 Quotes About Tragic

Tragedies are all around us, but they are not inevitable. We are not powerless to them. Most are the result of poor choices or bad actions. Others are unexpected, or out of our control Read more

But no matter how it happens, every tragedy has a lesson to teach us. It is up to us to learn what that lesson is and live our lives accordingly. The following collection of quotes about tragedy will help you cope with the difficult times, and encourage you to rise above them.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic...
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world. Karl Lagerfeld
The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that...
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The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did. Faraaz Kazi
Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a...
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Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare
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Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her. Faraaz Kazi
My heart cracked. Daemon never begged.
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My heart cracked. Daemon never begged. Jennifer L. Armentrout
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When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my own Juliet. I’d marry her and I would love her with the same passion and intensity as Romeo. The factthat their marriage lasted fewer than three days before they both were deaddidn’t seem to affect my fantasy. Even if they had lived, I don’t think theirrelationship could have survived. Let’s face it, being that emotionally aflame, sexually charged, and transcendentally eloquent every single second can really start to grate on a person’s nerves. However, if I could find someone to love just a fraction of the way that Montague loved his Capulet, then marrying her would be worth it. . Annabelle Gurwitch
It’s just the love for her in my heart that...
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It’s just the love for her in my heart that is morphing into this madness and how can I run away from it? Sometimes I want to when I can’t bear it anymore, but where will I go? Faraaz Kazi
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For a moment she believed he had left, but as she shifted away from the wall she sensed him there beside the bed. He was very close. Wretched curiosity! But she would fight it and not look. “ Katherine, ” he whispered, his breath rolling in a warm wave across her cheek. A traitor tear spilled out, the humiliation was too much to contain. Gently, a finger dabbed the wetness from her skin. He said it again, softly, as though it pleased him just to say it, “Katherine.” “Viktor! ” the accented voice bellowed from below. And then the shadow was gone. Darkness overwhelmed her then and carried her away to a land of crows and mocking strangers. . Gwenn Wright
In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A...
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In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears... life! Faraaz Kazi
If we were to understand how important it is to...
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If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic. Dejan Stojanovic
Your love was a vine - enchanting and beautiful, crawling...
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Your love was a vine - enchanting and beautiful, crawling around my heart and up my throat; then it strangled me. Your love, hauntingly tragic. Melody Lee
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Tell me that you don’t love me, and I’ll leave you alone. In this time or the next. Tell me that you don’t feel free. Tell me you can’t stand the way I look at you. But don’t tell me that I’m not allowed to love you. I will love you through every minute, every day, and every year for the rest of my life. My love for you is timeless. Moryah DeMott
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My heart is torn in tiny pieces scattered throughout the years. I exist in several places because you carry those pieces with you, wherever you go, whoever you choose to be, I’ll be beside you in one form or another. Moryah DeMott
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I’ve got money! ” Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the notion that there was some way out of this. “I mean, I don’t know what use money is to the Grim Reaper, but I’ve got a ton of cash! It’s in a hat box under my bed! I’ve got a bright red Lexus in the garage, I’ve got my engagement ring upstairs, it’s real gold… there must be something we can trade off with…”“ You can’t bribe me away, I’m afraid, ” said Mr. Azrael. “Money means nothing where I come from. . Rebecca McNutt
You and IAgain and again Always almost Never enough.- A...
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You and IAgain and again Always almost Never enough.- A world of almosts Ayushee Ghoshal
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I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole. Nicole Lyons
Your beauty is tragic. It is the sweetest sin, Heaven...
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Your beauty is tragic. It is the sweetest sin, Heaven ever created! Shillpi S Banerrji
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…I love you, ” he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. “I’d trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems… you never deserved this… why would anyone do something so terrible! ?” A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again. The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden, quicker than a lightning strike, the bulbs flickered and exploded with a few jingling pops. . Rebecca McNutt
It was frightening to realize how fast things could go...
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It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong. Danielle Steel
It was the cruelest of destiny’s tricks, the death of...
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It was the cruelest of destiny’s tricks, the death of a young person. Danielle Steel
You need to wake yourself up and take a grab...
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You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you. Danielle Steel
Some people are just different, even in the same family.
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Some people are just different, even in the same family. Danielle Steel
In the face of immense tragedy–yet again–unexpected beauty.
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In the face of immense tragedy–yet again–unexpected beauty. Sara Baume
She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints...
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She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face. John Mark Green
Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away...
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Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you. Faraaz Kazi
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If not towards his case to give him glimpses of what could be a happy future, it stayed back at least to warrant her happiness, stayed back with the pain that strangely didn’t hurt anymore. Faraaz Kazi
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We declared war on one another's heart. And once the bombs dropped, & wars of words began, all that was left were the ruins of what was once everything. Something once so beautiful, that even those dull ruins held it's own tragic beauty all their own. Trevor Driggers
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Music – good music, great music – had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses’ ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something. Julian Barnes
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To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people. Amy Carmichael
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Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too. Gayle Forman
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Hang in. We’ll make it. We all have each other. Danielle Steel
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I found him between a reality and a nightmare. Shannon A. Thompson
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And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety. Ayn Rand
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In a fit of anger he had said to her, "You'll always be miserable, " to which she thoughtfully replied, "Is that so? It's impossible to be miserable when you've known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement...you know, people like you. Donna Lynn Hope
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I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst - the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere - it's what comes after that determines the result. Robyn Schneider
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The most tragic cause of social disharmony is when the speed with which people find mistakes of others outweighs their simple belief that they too are infallible! Israelmore Ayivor
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The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I really could save Peeta.. in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal. Because I will be more valuable dead. They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living. But Peeta would be more valuable alive, and tragic, because he will be able to turn his pain into words that will transform people. Suzanne Collins
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I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us. Laurie Halse Anderson
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If a man cries in front of you, it doesn't mean he's weak. It means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down. Faraaz Kazi
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To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect, ” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations. Sol Luckman
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That’s what I’m trying, sir… getting my life. Faraaz Kazi
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In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite. Sahir Ludhianvi
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That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery. Stefanos Livos
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If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance. Danielle Steel
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The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy! Israelmore Ayivor
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The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don’t kill your own dreams. Israelmore Ayivor
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He did not have anything on him except her thoughts, except the good times he had once shared and the bad times he so desperately wanted to forget. Faraaz Kazi
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Memory is all I have now James Patterson
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The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot from alcohol poisoning. I've always wanted to hear the bartender's side of the story. What was it like watching this guy drink himself out of here? How did it feel handing him number twenty-one and watching his face crumple up before the fall of the stool? And did he already have number twenty-two poured, waiting for this big fat tip, and then have to drink it himself after whoever came took the body away? . Michael Thomas Ford
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Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. Faraaz Kazi
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Darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts - somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.attrition rules.most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.and nowas we ready to self-destructthere is very little left tokillwhich makes the tragedyless and moremuch muchmore. Charles Bukowski
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It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine. E.a. Bucchianeri
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Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self. Dennis Lehane
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Dear Matthew-There's one more thing I didn't get to tell you that night in my bedroom. Here it is: I love you. I'm in love with you. I have been for a long time. This might seem like a strange thing for me to say given the fact we aren't speaking to each other. But I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections. . Cammie McGovern
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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer — however happy, however tragic — is ever wasted. P.D. James
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She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d' Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness. Jennifer Donnelly
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Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? Faraaz Kazi
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Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was someone for whom even happiness would cry for, mourning the death of his sentiments and murdering the existence of his soul. Faraaz Kazi
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Between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always, though, while tripping and stumbling to the music, she looks out into her audience and tells the story about her mother. Most people laugh and yell for her to lift her skirts, but every so often she'll spot someone weeping and swear they can understand her every word. David Sedaris
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It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it. Emily Henry
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This is not a book about race, though the disproportionate number of those who fell that day were black, and certain racial themes are unavoidable. It is not a book that sets out to compare the United States unfavorably with Britain, though it is written by a Briton to whom gun culture is alien. Finally, it is not a book about gun control; it is a book made possible by the absence of gun control. Gary Younge
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My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew. Hanya Yanagihara
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..I was there when we opened the gates. Some of these poor wretches running out were so emaciated they actually died from the excitement of being liberated. I saw it happen several times. These people in the camps — they were like walking skeletons. You could see all their bones. The gates opened and the people ran out yelling, "I'm free! I'm free! " And some of them died right there. I was horrified to see what the SS had done to these people. - Roy Gates . Marcus Brotherton
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We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us–our genes, our bones, our wombs–that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way that we would be free. Lauren DeStefano
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Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself. Max Wertheimer
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While the differences between love and hate can be blurred and difficult to decipher at times, the dichotomy of denial and acceptance are much more distinct. One is halting and aggressively rejects all truth, while the other is more passive and at peace — welcoming whatever truth is in waiting, whether fortunate or tragic. Kenn Bivins
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You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor. Unknown
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In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others. Cortney S. Warren
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I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it? Faraaz Kazi
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If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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People will go through their entire lives justifying every damn decision…they’ll fight for all the wrong things, until finally the right thing stares at them square in the face. That’s when the choices start to matter. Because in the end, you’re a creature of habit. So you may want to choose right, but choose wrong in the end – because you’re so damn used to it. It’s tragic, then again, life’s tragic . Rachel Van Dyken
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When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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What's rose? A tragic or romantic flower? Sindi Hysi
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Yes, she was the girl playing basketball with all the boys in the park, collecting cans by the side of the road, keeping secret pet kittens in an empty boxcar in the woods, walking alone at night through the rail yards, teaching her little sister how to kiss, reading out loud to herself, so absorbed by the story, singing sadly in the tub, building a fort from the junked cars out in the meadow, by herself in the front row at the black-and-white movies or in the alley, gazing at an eddy of cigarette stubs and trash and fall leaves, smoking her first cigarette at dusk by a pile of dead brush in the desert, then wishing at the stars--she was all of them, and she was so much more that just just her that I still didn't know. Davy Rothbart
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Yet despite..accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat--to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants of the peasantry, and to the political structure to society, since it created a growing class of people outside the traditional paternalistic relations of the countryside. Möser's conception of contemporary political and economic trends in Osnabrück was essentialy tragic and tinged with that idealization of the past that would later be called romantic. Möser's heroes were the artisan-citizen and the independent peasant, his villains the shopkeeper and the peddler. Jerry Z. Muller
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The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone. Faraaz Kazi
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A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Suddenly exhausted, she closes her eyes and slips into nightmares again. Graveyards rising out of the ocean. Her friends’ corpses in the light of their burning school. Skeletons ripping open men's chests and crawling inside. She endures it patiently, waiting for the horror film to end and the theater to go dark, those precious few hours of blackout that are her only respite. Isaac Marion
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Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it. James C. Dobson
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Life is magical. If life had no magic, it would be tragic. Debasish Mridha
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For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea. Brittany Weekley/Monroe Starr
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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. . C.g. Jung
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An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It’s what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it – potentially – a tragic situation. You have to have been exposed to this, at least once, to understand it. Jacques Yonnet
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How beautiful the tragic seems when it is beneath a mask, but when it appears so nakedly before me and... when I am so forcibly implicated... I don't know whether I care for it so much. Somehow or other it is as though I were torturing myself.(" Thirty- Three Abominations") Lydia ZinovievaAnnibal
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At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too. Melina Marchetta
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She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his. Sarah Rees Brennan
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Marcus Brutus was the original tragic hero of the play ‘Julius Caesar’, Aditya concluded. Perhaps, Shakespeare should have named his play ‘Marcus Brutus’. But then again, it all must have boiled down to saleability and marketing; Julius Caesar being the more famous and thus bankable name. Ironical it was, Aditya smiled. The same Shakespeare had once said-‘ What’s in a name... Anurag Shourie
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I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way. Jennifer Niven
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I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home. Eric Jerome Dickey
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The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically. Leo Tolstoy
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For a moment, Blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. “I would rather you hate me for who I am than love me for who I’m not. Tanya Kaley
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Souls soar high above reach, Hands extend but never touch, Words exchanged in dulcet tones, Tis a fated moment to understand one's truth, Time to let go. Truth Devour
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The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea. Faraaz Kazi