#tragedy

Human tragedies: We all want to be extraordinary and we all just want to fit in. Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in. ↗

— Sebastyne Young

#fitting-in #talent #tragedy

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

— Barry B. Powell

#experience

The sun loved the moon so much he died every night so she could breathe. ↗

— Unknown

#devotion #love #moon #sacrifice #sun

The last word of love is ... goodbye. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#loveless #lovers #romance-dear-john #romantic-tragedy #love

Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us. ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#love #rejection #tragedy #love

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#tragedy #love

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. ↗

— Tom Perrotta

#life #news #tragedy #death

Dits par l'autre tout à l'heure ils l'irritaient et l'écoeuraient. Car les paroles d'amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent les goût des lèvres dont elles sortent. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#love

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered? ↗

— Kristina McMorris

#philosophy #philosophy-religion #prayers #tragedy #war

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. ↗

— Maxwell Anderson

#essence #even #hero #play #regeneration