Top 100 Love Tragedy Quotes
#2. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
George R R Martin
#3. To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#4. The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.
Herb Kelleher
#5. Everybody wants love but not everyone wants to love.
J. Limbu
#6. Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.
Eugene O'Neill
#7. Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.
Rae Hachton
#8. It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.
J.S.B. Morse
#9. We fear changes, so we fear to let it go, not knowing that life is an ever-changing, magnificent flower of triumph, tragedy, love, hope, and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#10. I don't want to sew.
How else will the buttons get onto the coat?
Diane Samuels
#11. The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
Joanna Trollope
#12. The humans who love us never last long. Scions are tragedy magnets. It's safer for them if we leave before the trouble starts." ~ Daphne
Josephine Angelini
#13. Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.
William Shakespeare
#14. Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit
Queen Elizabeth II
#15. The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
#16. I didn't believe in gravity until I met you.
Liam Levi
#17. I believe that life is full of tragedy. Some lives more than others. But I also believe that comfort can be found with the people that love you . . . if you're willing to let them give it.
Eliza Maxwell
#18. If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.
Paulo Coelho
#19. My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
Judy Collins
#20. This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.
This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.
Rachel Higginson
#21. Your tragedy is God's opportunity to show Himself faithful.
Jim George
#23. An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What's a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.
Diane Samuels
#24. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.
Timothy Conigrave
#25. I want to thank everyone and everything,
every sunrise and every sunset,
every abundance and every beauty,
every tragedy and every triumph,
every sadness and every happiness,
every moment and every experience
that we call life deserves my deepest gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#26. But how would it be if there was nowhere in the world that you belonged? If you could get nobody to love you? What if you could not be a Shadowhunter or a warlock or anything else?
Maybe then you were worse than a tragedy. Maybe you were nothing at all.
Cassandra Clare
#27. Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
George Orwell
#28. I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
Isadora Duncan
#29. People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
James Branch Cabell
#30. One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
Bob Seger
#31. That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.
Ben Sherwood
#32. Save me from the things that I love.
J. Limbu
#33. It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse ... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies ... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.
Charles Bukowski
#34. The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
William Shakespeare
#35. 'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.
Monique Roffey
#36. 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
#37. The reality that someone you love has died is its own tragedy. But it's separate, isn't it, from the way it happened?
Sherrida Woodley
#38. The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.
D.R. Silva
#39. We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.
Mahmoud Darwish
#40. For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.
Rae Hachton
#41. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham
#42. I'd never hated myself more than at that moment.
But it was for the best, because a love between us would only end in tragedy and she already had her fair share of that.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#43. Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?
Diane Samuels
#44. The tragedy of love is in its ending,
the blessing - everything else.
No love ever deserves to end.
Akif Kichloo
#45. He unclenched his fists and dropped her worries, unable to catch them for her. But she picked them back up and dusted them off. She wants to be able to hold them herself now.
Colleen Hoover
#46. A lot of tragedy would be averted if people didn't confuse trust with love. I expect my clients to trust me. I really don't care if they hate me. ~ Brandon Hull
Jayden Hunter
#47. All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
Katharine Kerr
#48. I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination
it would turn into a masterpiece.
Franz Grillparzer
#49. Tragedy, like love, makes people blind.
J.R. Ward
#50. We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.
George R R Martin
#51. Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
Daniel Dennett
#52. I've come to realize that you can fight a lot of things in life, but you can't help who you love. You can't change who your heart chooses. I'm afraid that very fact will be the greatest tragedy of my life.
Sarah Jio
#53. Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies - skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same.
Rachael Wade
#54. Just the thought of you and all the universe conspires against me.
J. Limbu
#55. Folk dress in all manner of finery and wonderful hats to go and watch the races, but only if it's horses doing the barreling that day. This, at least, is understandable, for horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse's tragedy that they can never properly wear one.
Catherynne M Valente
#56. 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.
R.W. Rivers
#57. Of everything
I have ever endured,
Y
O
U
are
My Favourite Tragedy.
Meraaqi
#58. It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#60. Let your Tragedy Make You. Not Break You.
-Trudy Love
Learning to Live
R.D. Cole
R.D. Cole
#61. One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Ben Kingsley
#62. I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
John Lithgow
#63. The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy - but then Jesus came.
Paul David Tripp
#64. You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.
Christina Rasmussen
#65. The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.
Bob Parr
#66. Thou doth not know the tragedy of a tale between two hearts till the tears of a forgotten love dissolve into the scars of yearning and seep through the cracks of the broken, leaving behind a trail of crimson for all but one to see.
Raneem Kayyali
#67. Don't know when my life came to visualising intense pain and tragedy to putting it down on paper, to putting across a message of love in times of abject hate. Thank you everybody and the conspiracy of the stars for showing me this day. To many, many more books, inshallah, and to many more launches.
Simran Keshwani
#68. The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
#69. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.
Denis Fitzpatrick
#70. There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
Oscar Wilde
#71. Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
D.H. Lawrence
#72. I understand more than I want to. People act like love is a gift, but it's not. It's theft. It's a goddamn tragedy. Love is losing a vital organ to a man who will never give his in return.
Skye Warren
#73. It is majestic, this love affair of ours, so powerful and regal. It is the kind of love that fairtales are born of. The kind that often ends in tragedy.
Addison Moore
#74. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
Nicholas Sparks
#75. The greatest tragedy in life is our inability to experience and express fascination for the people and events we love while in their presence.
Darrell Calkins
#76. I loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner for life, eating her heart out. And we did keep her safe- for many years
Phillip Stark
Agatha Christie
#77. Whenever there is love beyond boundaries ...
Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans ...
Nevertheless, a Trial is born ...
You pass that trial, sacred you shall be ... if you don't, your are immortal !!!!
M.W.Latif
#78. I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.
Turcois Ominek
#79. What if you're the angel I sought and me the ghost you loved, and we both knew, we belong to different place.
J. Limbu
#80. I am in love with this burrito. I would marry it if I didn't want to eat it so badly."
"The tragedy of true love," Cade whispered.
Cora Carmack
#81. Problems can be fixed. But unrequited love is a tragedy.
Suzanne Harper
#82. And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
Charlie Jane Anders
#83. Thoughtful minds grow, from the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy.
Aisha Mirza
#84. Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother.
Diane Samuels
#85. Because I want to know if I'm allowed to kiss your tears away. Because I want to be able to hold your hand. Because I like you.
J.B. McGee
#86. I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.
Rafe Esquith
#87. We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
Salman Rushdie
#88. An anniversary is a celebration of the triumph and tragedy of love.
Debasish Mridha
#89. In my sixteen years, I have experienced heartbreak, tragedy and transcending love. In my thirteenth year, I moved to Westerly and experienced all three.
Jaycee Relic
#91. If tragedy does not ensnare a man, if affliction does not agitate him, if love does not lay him down in the cradle of dreams, then his life is like a blank, white page in the book of existence. In that year I saw the
Kahlil Gibran
#92. I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.
William Shakespeare
#93. Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?
May Sarton
#94. My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.
Debasish Mridha
#95. I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
Andrew Solomon
#96. No god will spare you forgiveness for loving me.
Liam Levi
#97. I love you."
Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella.
J.R. Ward
#98. Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable.
Sarvesh Jain
#99. Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.
Robert Black
#100. Maybe that was why the French called orgasms "las petites morts": because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.
Nenia Campbell
