Tragic Poetry Quotes

#1. I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

Tommy Chong

#2. Freedom is the choice to be free than to be a slave.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

Elmer Kelton

#4. Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

Terry A. O'Neal

#5. You have to be ill if you want to get better.

Colin Firth

#6. The early bird catches the worm.

William Camden

#7. Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

Michael K. Powell

#8. Choose wisely
From those who start
A fire in your heart.

Some may burn you to shreds,
While you were looking for warmth.

Saiber

#9. If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.

Dejan Stojanovic

#10. What is a book for if not to be read?

Rachel R. Smith

#11. The parsley sinking into the butter on a hot day,

Agatha Christie

#12. The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, - the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#13. I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Chaim Potok

#14. Intelligence helps you think inside of the box.
Creativity helps you think outside of the box.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. We are loved by an unending love.

Rami M. Shapiro

#16. No artist has painted
A true portrait of Lenin
Ages to come will complete
Lenin's unfinished portrait.
Did Poletaev understand the tragic implication of his lines about Lenin? (pg179)

Vasily Grossman

#17. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
Macbeth

William Shakespeare

#18. Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

Rumi

#19. For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

Ellen Key

#20. History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer

#21. Romantic haste in drama brings
tears and sighs when the hero dies
but the curtain fall is final
when in life we take the tragic way
The sunset too is a glorious thing
but with it ends the day.

C. P. Klapper

#22. You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.

Jon Lovitz

#23. Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot.
'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

James Patterson