Romantic Tragedy Quotes

#1. Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

David Rodigan

#2. I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard

Eminem

#3. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

E. M. Forster

#4. Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

Ron Paul

#6. Her face was like a party that everyone had left.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#7. To be fated to lose. To know destiny itself the architect of my torment. Can it be true? Is to be Loki to be without hope? And if so...to whom can a god appeal for mercy?

Robert Rodi

#8. People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

Kevin Brockmeier

#9. The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.

Carroll Bryant

#10. If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

John Rzeznik

#11. They don't know I only speak in runaway train stations
and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.
No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close
because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.

Katelin Wagner

#12. 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

#13. A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

Nizar Qabbani

#14. Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

Bill Johnson

#15. It is a very painful thing, having to part company with what torments you. And how mute the world is!

Robert Walser

#16. What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

Chevy Chase

#17. It takes a truly good person to gain power, strength, and mystical abilities and not misuse them.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

Charles M. Schulz

#19. The last word of love is ... goodbye.

Carroll Bryant

#20. We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

Phil Gramm

#21. The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically all the time. My theory on it was that it was really, really unnerving to be in a place where English isn't the first language.

Mikky Ekko