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#tragedy

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tragedy




A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.


R.J. Gonzales


#death #loss #loss-of-a-baby #miscarriage #sad

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.


John Webster


#jacobean-tragedy #murder #youth #death

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


#fate #tragedy #death

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.


William Trevor


#loss #tragedy #death

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


#fate #tragedy #death

Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.


William Shakespeare


#tragedy #death

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.


Terri Garey


#tragedy #life

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.


Henry David Thoreau


#life

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


#genocide #tragedy #wounded-knee #age

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.


Stephen King


#creativity #tragedy #dreams






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