“Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a purging of the emotions. A real tragedy takes place in a corner, in an untidy spot, to quote W. H. Auden. The rest of the world is unaware of it.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“When tragedy strikes there is a abject of blame. And in the events of tragedy we usually blame ourselves. You are not to blame. No one is to blame.”— Julian Fellowes, Violet Crawley, Maggie Smith, imdb.com
“I knew it would be you who came to the cabin to check on me. You must be frightened—I apologize for that. I never meant to cause you any pain. I also never envisioned writing this letter. I've searched for a satisfactory explanation for what I'm doing. All I've come up with is... a profiler needs to…”— Chris Mundy, Jason Gideon, Mandy Patinkin, imdb.com
“Grief never looks like just tears and anguish. It's a lot of things all at once. It's joy and laughter and guilt and anxiety and restlessness. It's why we have so much trouble identifying it ourselves in the aftermath of a tragedy.”— Geraldine DeRuiter, twitter.com
“Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strike…”— Jed Seidel, Veronica Mars, Kristen Bell, imdb.com
“Just because you've failed, it doesn't make you a failure. The tragedy is not in falling, it's in falling and refusing to get up.”— Eric Thomas, twitter.com
“Since I was a little kid, I always, like, had too much empathy. I would see pictures in the newspaper of people in an earthquake or a war and just obsess.”— Jessica Goldberg, Noa, Britne Oldford, imdb.com
“Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough.”— Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Fortenberry, Commander Fred Waterford, Joseph Fiennes, imdb.com
“In closing, these stories have not been embellished, because they need no embellishment. They are simply, horrifyingly, the story of my life as a short, stocky, slow-witted bald man.”— Spike Feresten, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.”— Nora Ephron, hollywoodreporter.com
“As they strapped the oxygen mask to my face, I lifted it up and said, 'Don't trim my hair too short in the back.’ It's a cliche, but there's a very thin line between comedy and tragedy. I know that line in my professional life. I'm not so sure I know it in my personal life.”— Garry Shandling, nytimes.com
“In the emotion of the moment, people often say and do reckless things. For the individual, that can have deep ramifications. But when it is a single individual acting unreasonably in the throws of emotion in the face of sorrow, then the consequences are borne by only that person and his family. But…”— Ron Paul, ronpaulquotes.com
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.”— Albert Camus, en.wikiquote.org
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”— Horace Walpole, en.wikiquote.org
“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.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.”— David Cronenberg, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com