Numerous tragedy quotes to motivate, inspire and share

Confidence don't mean jack shit in the real world, sis, she once said. I feel myself finding the courage to trust those words more and more with every twist of the knife. Coincidentally, last Tuesday afternoon I was involuntarily exposed to the punch line of an old wise tale that goes something like: There's beauty that can be found in everything. But why can't the insensitive cunt who said that ever find the courage to look in the mirror? Because poopycock, one might say.
Dave Matthes

A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don’t even know it.
Tim Loy

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Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
Arthur Miller

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Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.
E. Lockhart

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Falling so madly in love with you is a tragedy. Nothing in my world will ever seem so beautiful again.
Michael Faudet

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God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
Shannon L. Alder

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It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation.
Aditya Ajmera

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Every broken heart has one time or another asked, What is important to me now?
Shannon L. Alder

We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.
Bryant McGill

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You'll find that great artists don't love, live, fuck or even die like ordinary people. Because they always have their art. It nourishes them more than any connection to people. Whatever human tragedy befalls them, they're never too gutted, because they need only to pour the tragedy into their vat, stir in the other lurid ingredients, blast it over a fire. What emerges will be even more magnificent than if the tragedy had never occurred.
Marisha Pessl

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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
Charlie Jane Anders

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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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A poet warrior realizes both the brutality and the beauty in life and apprehends that the suffering we tragically endure is partly what makes us human. What also makes us human is the ability to love, the ability to stand in nature’s presence and to nurture this earthly paradise to tend to our family’s needs.
Kilroy J. Oldster

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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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Wracking sobs rip from the innermost chamber of my heart and I give into them, allowing them to fully take over. Pain lances me on all sides and I bury my head in my knees, giving in to the heartache.I cry for my parents.For my lost life.For the threat that Addison poses, scaring me in ways it shouldn’t.For a boy I can’t have and shouldn’t want.For the never-ending gut-wrenching hollow ache in my chest and the soul-crushing loneliness I feel.
Siobhan Davis

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If not for tragedy, tyrants and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always.
Steve Maraboli

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Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain...
J. Limbu

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Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.
Kamand Kojouri

I’ve read so many stories online about how tragedy brings people together, how hard times encourage bravery and sacrifice, how a crisis can turn ordinary folks into heroes. But what about the opposite, when something horrible happens and it strips us bare, exposing weaknesses we didn’t even know we had. What about when tragedy makes people worse?
Paula Stokes

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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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To all the person whom I made laugh,I wonder who will be the one to put a smile on my face-a clown's message
Johncenk.m.f Vergara

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Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.-Carl Grimes#125
Robert Kirkman

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It's certainly true that Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population. The literature on the subject is pretty unanimous in its opinion that the Soviet system had taken a poorly designed reactor adn then staffed it with a group of incompetents. It then proceeded, as the interviews in this book attest, to lie about the disaster in the most criminal way. In the crucial first ten days, when the reactor core was burning and releasing a steady stream of highly radioactive material into the surrounding areas, the authorities repeatedly claimed that the situation was under control. . . In the week after the accident, while refusing to admit to the world that anything really serious had gone wrong, the Soviets poured thousands of men into the breach. . . The machines they brought broke down because of the radiation. The humans wouldn't break down until weeks or months later, at which point they'd die horribly.
Svetlana Alexievich

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I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.
Anne Carson

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A tragedy can catch us any time possible; for this very reason, we must catch the life any time possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan

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While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
E.A. Bucchianeri

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Pattie saw grief. Her eyes focused on a version of her own young self and so many other children in Vietnam who grew up without parents, some abandoned because of their ethnicity, others because of tragedy. And her arms reached out wide.
Holly Goldberg Sloan

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Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.
Lailah Gifty Akita

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I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.
Kevin Brooks

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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream...
Black Elk

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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley

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Tell her I am sorry I sold the diamond, eh? Sammy said. I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so long ago, I finally used that diamond, moved to Texas as I always dreamed. I started my machine shop. Started my family! It was a good life, but Haze; was right. The diamond came with a curse. I never saw her again. Oh, Sammy, Hazel said. No, a curse didn't keep me away. I wanted to come back. I died! The old man didn't seem to hear. He smiled down at the baby and kissed him on the head. I give you my blessing, Leo. First male great-grandchild! I have a feeling you are special, like Hazel was. You are more than a regular baby, eh? You will carry on for me. You will see her someday. Tell her hello for me.
Rick Riordan

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It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.
Émile Gaboriau

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As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

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Often, things are left unsaid. Everyone is guilty of thinking and feeling things... of loving or appreciating others... and of taking for granted that those others will just be there... to continue to share life's journey with...Then when one is gone... so quickly... all those things left unsaid... they matter more, because they were unspoken...Everyone fights their own battles inside themselves... often no one outside them even knows the wars that rage inside even those who they are closest to...I'd like to take the time, here and now, to tell all of you... those close to me and those who aren't... those who matter so much... and those who have influenced me in even the smallest ways... all of you... that you matter. You are important. You are appreciated. Don't for a moment think otherwise. Don, think or feel that you are not a wonder... a gift to the world... that makes it a better place to be... or that it would ever, in any way, be anything less than a tragedy for you to leave before your time.
Dennis Sharpe

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Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas; every bad moment gives them lessons.' Ladder
Israelmore Ayivor

Joy is much sweeter for having known sorrow; and triumph for having tasted defeat.
Jocelyn Murray

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I had no eyelashes left. So when I cried, the tears rolled down, unabated to my mouth. My saliva tasted those days, like a salt lake. Or so he said.'('Left from Dhakeshwari')
Kunal Sen

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As a rule, we don't like to feel to sad or lonely or depressed. So why do we like music (or books or movies) that evoke in us those same negative emotions? Why do we choose to experience in art the very feelings we avoid in real life?Aristotle deals with a similar question in his analysis of tragedy. Tragedy, after all, is pretty gruesome. […] There's Sophocles's Oedipus, who blinds himself after learning that he has killed his father and slept with his mother. Why would anyone watch this stuff? Wouldn't it be sick to enjoy watching it? […] Tragedy's pleasure doesn't make us feel good in any straightforward sense. On the contrary, Aristotle says, the real goal of tragedy is to evoke pity and fear in the audience. Now, to speak of the pleasure of pity and fear is almost oxymoronic. But the point of bringing about these emotions is to achieve catharsis of them - a cleansing, a purification, a purging, or release. Catharsis is at the core of tragedy's appeal.
Brandon W. Forbes

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Every age is the age of the apocalypse.
Marty Rubin

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I don't like feeling sorry for myself. That's not who I am. And most of the time I don't feel that way. Instead, I am grateful for having at least found you. We could have flashed by one another like two pieces of cosmic dust.God or the universe or whatever one chooses to label the great systems of balance and order does not recognize Earth-time. To the universe, four days is no different than four billion light years. I try to keep that in mind.But, I am, after all, a man. And all the philosophic rationalizations I can conjure up do not keep me from wanting you, every day, every moment, the merciless wail of time, of time I can never spend with you, deep within my head.I love you, profoundly and completely. And I always will.The last cowboy,Robert
Robert James Waller

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Die Welt ist nirgends außer diesen Mauern;Nur Fegefeuer, Qual, die Hölle selbst.Von hier verbannt, ist aus der Welt verbannt,Und solcher Bann ist Tod: Drum gibst du ihmDen falschen Namen. - Nennst du Tod Verbannung,Enthauptest du mit goldnem Beile michUnd lächelst zu dem Streich, der mich ermordet.There is no world without Verona walls,But purgatory, torture, hell itself.Hence banishèd is banished from the world,And world's exile is death. Then banishèdIs death mistermed. Calling death banishèd,Thou cuttest my head off with a golden axeAnd smilest upon the stroke that murders me.Romeo: Act III, Scene 3
William Shakespeare

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The best thing you can say to someone going through a tragic loss is not thatIt's going to be alrightIt is:Hold on tight because this is going to hurt like hell.
JohnA Passaro

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Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life.
John N. Gray

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Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream and denies that there are such things as dreams.
David Mamet

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Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.
Barry B. Powell

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I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!
Richard Goldschmidt

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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
Sara Zarr

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Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.
Michael Bassey Johnson

I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.
Diane Von Furstenberg

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