#tragedy

You his brother?' 'Yes, damn it!' I burst out. "And all I want is to get my hands on whoever did this to him!' 'Funny,' said a dick dryly, 'but so do we.' I didn't like him much after that. Sarcasm is out of place when a man has just been brought face to face with personal tragedy. ("Walls That Hear You") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#tragedy #funny

For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he’d never even seen. ↗

— Yukako Kabei

#love #revenge #tragedy #love

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing close around the characters who live and breathe on the pages.But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage, and you cannot let go or turn the course aside. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #tragedy #tessa-gray

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

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences. ↗

— David Gemmell

#dramatist-quotes #inspirational-quotes #tragedy #inspirational

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin. ↗

— Lake Bell

#fat #female #find #get #hilarious

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#famine #future #human #in the past #instead

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#delightful #i #merely #out #simply

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#must #realistic #subject #tragedy