109 Tragic And Poignant Quotes

In the tapestry of human experience, tragedy and poignancy weave threads that leave a profound impact on us all. These themes capture the essence of our most intense emotions, reflecting moments of deep sorrow, loss, and introspection. The words that emerge from these experiences hold a unique power, resonating with us because they touch on universal truths. In this collection of the top 109 tragic and poignant quotes, we invite you to explore a realm where words articulate the heart's most profound aches and the soul's quiet resilience. Each quote offers a glimpse into the raw beauty and solemn grace that life imparts through its challenges, offering solace and a reminder of our shared humanity.

1. “We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.” - Stephen Jay Gould

2. “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” - Joseph Stalin

3. “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” - Mel Brooks

4. “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

5. “There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” - Dalai Lama XIV

6. “There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.” - Hugh MacLennan

7. “All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.” - Anais Nin

8. “Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” - William Shakespeare

9. “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” - William Shakespeare

10. “The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.” - Alan Lightman

11. “The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.” - Alan Lightman

12. “Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour” - Euripides

13. “On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.” - Neal Shusterman

14. “Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.” - Neal Shusterman

15. “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” - William Butler Yeats

16. “Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.” - Daniel Prokop

17. “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

18. “I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well.” - Julie Metz

19. “The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.” - Dawn Powell

20. “Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.” - Jeannette Walls

21. “Et voilà. Maintenant le ressort est bandé. Cela n'a plus qu'à se dérouler tout seul. C'est cela qui est commode dans la tragédie. On donne le petit coup de pouce pour que cela démarre, rien, un regard pendant une seconde à une fille qui passe et lève les bras dans la rue, une envie d'honneur un beau matin, au réveil, comme de quelque chose qui se mange, une question de trop qu'on se pose un soir… C'est tout. Après, on n'a plus qu'à laisser faire. On est tranquille. Cela roule tout seul. C'est minutieux, bien huilé depuis toujours. La mort, la trahison, le désespoir sont là, tout prêts, et les éclats, et les orages, et les silences, tous les silences : le silence quand le bras du bourreau se lève à la fin, le silence au commencement quand les deux amants sont nus l'un en face de l'autre pour la première fois, sans oser bouger tout de suite, dans la chambre sombre, le silence quand les cris de la foule éclatent autour du vainqueur - et on dirait un film dont le son s'est enrayé, toutes ces bouches ouvertes dont il ne sort rien, toute cette clameur qui n'est qu'une image, et le vainqueur, déjà vaincu, seul au milieu de son silence…” - Jean Anouilh

22. “Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.” - William Shakespeare

23. “If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.” - Alan Lightman

24. “Humor is tragedy plus time.” - Mark Twain

25. “And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.” - Erich Segal

26. “Va, je ne te hais point.” - Pierre Corneille

27. “Zu früh, befürcht ich; denn mein Herz erbangtUnd ahnet ein Verhängnis, welches, nochVerborgen in den Sternen, heute NachtBei dieser Lustbarkeit den furchtbarn ZeitlaufBeginnen und das Ziel des läst'gen Lebens,Das meine Brust verschließt, mir kürzen wirdDurch irgendeinen Frevel frühen Todes.Doch er, der mir zur Fahrt das Steuer lenkt,Richt' auch mein Segel!I fear, too early. For my mind misgivesSome consequence, yet hanging in the stars,Shall bitterly begin his fearful dateWith this night's revels, and expire the termOf a despisèd life, closed in my breast,By some vile forfeit of untimely death.But He that hath the steerage of my courseDirect my sail!Romeo: Act I, Scene 4” - William Shakespeare

28. “History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.” - Kedar Joshi

29. “The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.” - Kedar Joshi

30. “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.” - Jean Racine

31. “Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?” - Honoré de Balzac

32. “Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.” - Joseph Campbell

33. “Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.” - Whittaker Chambers

34. “I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.” - W. Somerset Maugham

35. “A lot of you cared, just not enough.” - Jay Asher

36. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” - Terri Garey

37. “The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.""You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.” - John Fowles

38. “It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon. The hero sinks upon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; and, in the next scene, his faithful but unconscious squire regales the audience with a comic song. We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger; drawing forth a dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and, just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard: and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle: where a grey-headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.Such changes appear absurd; but they are not so unnatural as they would seem at first sight. The transitions in real life from well-spread boards to death-beds, and from mourning weeds to holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers-on; which makes a vast difference. The actors in the mimic life of the theatre, are blind to violent transitions and abrupt impulses of passion or feeling, which, presented before the eyes of mere spectators, are at once condemned as outrageous and preposterous.” - Charles Dickens

39. “No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes—forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.” - Neil Gaiman

40. “Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.” - W. Scott Lineberry

41. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

42. “Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.” - Anne Lamott

43. “Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.” - Edward Morris

44. “It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.” - Kristina McMorris

45. “Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone.” - James Lovegrove

46. “Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.” - Chris Crutcher

47. “If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.” - Irvin D. Yalom

48. “As you set out on your journey to Ithaca,pray that your journey be a long one,filled with adventure, filled with discovery.Laestrygonians and Cyclopes,the angry Poseidon--do not fear them:you'll never find such things on your wayunless your sight is set high, unless a rareexcitement stirs your spirit and your body.The Laestrygonians and Cyclopes,the savage Poseidon--you won't meet themso long as you do not admit them to your soul,as long as your soul does not set them before you.Pray that your road is a long one.May there be many summer morningswhen with what pleasure, with what joy,you enter harbors never seen before.May you stop at Phoenician stations of trade to buy fine things,mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,and voluptuous perfumes of every kind--buy as many voluptuous perfumes as you can.And may you go to many Egyptian citiesto learn and learn from those who know.Always keep Ithaca in your mind.You are destined to arrive there.But don't hurry your journey at all.Far better if it takes many years,and if you are old when you anchor at the island,rich with all you have gained on the way,not expecting that Ithaca will give you wealth.Ithaca has given you a beautiful journey.Without her you would never have set out.She has no more left to give you.And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not mocked you.As wise as you have become, so filled with experience,you will have understood what these Ithacas signify.” - Barry B. Powell

49. “It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.” - Patrick Rothfuss

50. “A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.” - Criss Jami

51. “We may be helpless to stop bad things from happening, but perhaps God leaves us signs and road maps to help us recover and reconnect, provided we know where to look.” - Jennifer Gardner Trulson

52. “Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.” - Dee Remy

53. “As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.” - Criss Jami

54. “If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.” - CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

55. “It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.” - William Shakespeare

56. “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” - William Shakespeare

57. “O honorable strumpet” - William Shakespeare

58. “And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...” - Banana Yoshimoto

59. “What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?” - Christopher Marlowe

60. “A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.” - RJ Gonzales

61. “You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.” - Tasha Alexander

62. “If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.” - Diana Gabaldon

63. “The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling.” - Markus Zusak

64. “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

65. “The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.” - William Shakespeare

66. “A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.” - Sergei Lukyanenko

67. “To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.” - Amy Denise

68. “Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.” - Steve Farrar

69. “If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said thatevery mushroom cloud has a silver lining.” - Adam Young Owl City Cave In

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

71. “When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.” - R.C. Sproul

72. “There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.” - Marcus Aurelius

73. “She wanted to touch him, to throw her arms around him — but something held her back. Maybe it was the fear that her arms would pass right through him, that she would have come all this way only to find a ghost after all.As though he’d been able to read her thoughts, he slowly angled toward her. He raised his hands and held his palms out to her. Isobel lifted her own hands to mirror his. He pressed their palms together, his fingers folding down to lace through hers. She felt a rush of warmth course through her, a relief as pure and sweet as spring rain.He was real. This was real. She had found him. She could touch him. She could feel him. Finally they were together. Finally, finally, they could forget this wasted world and go home."I knew it wasn’t true," she whispered. "I knew you wouldn’t stop believing." He drew her close.Leaning into him, she felt him press his lips to her forehead in a kiss. As he spoke, the cool metal of his lip ring grazed her skin, causing a shudder to ripple through her."You..." His voice, low and breathy, reverberated through her, down to the thin soles of her slippers. "You think you’re different," he said. She felt his hands tighten around hers, gripping hard, too hard.A streak of violet lightning split the sky, striking close behind them.The house, Isobel thought. It had been struck. She could hear it cracking apart. She looked for only a brief moment, long enough to watch it split open."But you’re not," Varen said, calling her attention back to him. Isobel winced, her own hands surrendering under the suddenly crushing pressure of his hold. A face she did not recognize stared down at her, one twisted with anger — with hate."You," he scarcely more than breathed, "are just like every. Body. Else."He moved so fast. Before she could register his words or the fact that she had once spoken them to him herself, he jerked her to one side. Isobel felt her feet part from the rocks. Weightlessness took hold of her as she swung out and over the ledge of the cliff.As he let her go.The wind whistled its high and lonely song in her ears. She fell away into the oblivion of the storm until she could no longer see the cliff — could no longer see him.Only the slip of the pink ribbon as it unraveled from her wrist, floating up and away from her and out of sight forever.” - Kelly Creagh

74. “Dear God,I hurt. Please hold me.Amen” - Richelle E. Goodrich

75. “Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.” - Harold Kushner

76. “It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated by the power of the law. Reducing it all to a summary of a few pages, organizing the facts, judging it, archiving it, and forgetting it. That simple. And yet in the silence of that place you could hear the murmur of the written words, of the key players, the screams of the victims, the hatred never forgotten by either party, the pain that never went away.” - Víctor del Árbol

77. “Cass pulls from my embrace, her mind reaching into my heart. Pain, anger, confusion pass through her eyes. My pain. My anger. My confusion. She swallows hard. “Because?”“Because I traded it all, my heart, my memories, everything. For her.” - Christine Fonseca

78. “You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.” - Vernor Vinge

79. “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 Lord of the Silver Bow

80. “OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearthI pray that I myself may feel my curse. On you I lay my charge to fulfill all this for me, for the God, and for this land of ours destroyed and blighted, by the God forsaken.” - Sophocles

81. “TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.Do you know who your parents are? Unknowingyou are enemy to kith and kinin death, beneath the earth, and in this life.” - Sophocles

82. “TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of,indicting him in threatening proclamationas murderer of Laius)- he is here.In name he is a stranger among citizensbut soon he will be shown to be a citizentrue native Theban, and he'll have no joyof the discovery: blindness for sightand beggary for riches his exchange,he shall go journeying to a foreign countrytapping his way before him with a stick.He shall be proved father and brother bothto his own children in his house; to herthat gave him birth, a son and husband both;a fellow sower in his father's bedwith that same father that he murdered.Go within, reckon that out, and if you find memistaken, say I have no skill in prophecy.” - Sophocles

83. “JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God discovers need of, easilyhe shows to us himself.” - Sophocles

84. “OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing.” - Sophocles

85. “CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.” - Sophocles

86. “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

87. “О Зевс! Зачем ты создавал жену?И это зло с его фальшивым блескомЛучам небес позволил обливать?Иль для того, чтоб род людской продолжить,Ты обойтись без женщины не мог?Иль из своих за медь и злато храмовИль серебро не мог бы сыновейТы продавать, чего который стоит,Освободив жилища нам от жен?Что жены зло, мне доказать не трудно.Родной отец за дочерью, ееВзлелеявши, чужому человекуПриданое дает - освободиЕго от дочки только. Муж, конечно,Отравленной украсив розой сад,Ей восхищен бывает. Точно куклуИль алмаз фальшивый, он женуСтарается оправить подороже.Но и мужей жена нищит, и только.И хорошо, кому попалось в домНичтожное творенье, чтоб ни злого,Ни доброго придумать не могла.Но умницы!.. Избави боже, еслиВ ней на вершок побольше, чем в других,Ума, излишек этот АфродитеНа пользу лишь - коварством станет он.Напротив, та, которая природойОбижена жена, по крайней мере,На хитрости Киприды не пойдет.” - Euripides

88. “Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.” - Rw Rivers

89. “Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.” - Tom Perrotta

90. “Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.” - Gary Steiner

91. “Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade.” - Kristin Hannah

92. “Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.” - Frederick Buechner

93. “The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.” - James Carlos Blake

94. “Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.” - Rae Hachton

95. “We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.” - Rae Hachton

96. “Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy.  If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

97. “Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.” - Ashly Lorenzana

98. “Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.” - Gabrielle Zevin

99. “It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.” - C.G. Jung

100. “A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.” - Abraham Lincoln

101. “It wasn't the "I love you" she heard that made her let him go. It was the "Come with me" that she didn't.” - Meghan O'Connor

102. “That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.” - Henry Miller

103. “Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of DenmarkIs by a forged process of my deathRankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy father's lifeNow wears his crown.” - William Shakespeare

104. “Tragic tales rarely do make sense.” - Gwenn Wright

105. “You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation; you simply need a plan.” - Shannon L. Alder

106. “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

107. “Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

108. “Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead.” - Donna Lynn Hope

109. “One of the things that helps use cope with loss is the fact that while memories may remian, the emotions associated with them will fade like old photographs. At the same time, there is a masochistic desire to retain those feelings spurred on by the dread of losing the power they hold. Sometimes I can't think of anything more awful than simply being human.” - James Pratt