"Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories - cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful."

Tragedy, Cheerfulness, Pain, Storytelling

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"Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories - cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful."

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"And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!"

Homer, Greek Poet

Tragedy, Grief, Death, Loss, Suffering

"But was the woman's death the tragedy, or her life?"

Marissa Meyer, American Author

Tragedy, Life, Death, Perspective

"Malphas surveyed the women's bodies with utter disgust and sorrowuntil he realized Tabitha was still alive. He knelt by her side and cradled her head tenderly. "Tabby... I'm so sorry"Grimacing she opened her eyes as she labored to breathe. She laughed bitterly, exposing a set of bleeding teeth. "there are some things that sorry doesn't fix, Caleb.""Shhh, don't speak. I can--""you failed us," She went limp in his arms. Her eyes went Dull.Wincing, Caleb held her close to his heart and stroked her bloody hair. "No, Tabby. I failed myself.""Most of all, I failed Nick."

Sherrilyn Kenyon, American Author

Tragedy, Regret, Sorrow, Compassion, Loss

"There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers leave the ivory whiteness of the skin untouched, and marble not the firm, fair flesh, with their blue tints; the physician who bends over the patient's chest hears not, through he listens, the insatiable teeth of the disease grinding its onward progress through the muscles, as the blood flows freely on; the knife has never been able to destroy, and rarely even, temporarily, to discern the rage of these mortal scourges; their home is in the mind, which they corrupt; they fill the whole heart until it breaks. Such, madame, are the cancers, fatal to queens; are you, too, free from their scourge?"

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Tragedy, Illness, Mind, Suffering, Pain

"The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Tragedy, Home, Grief, Silence, Custom

"She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had loved him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

Tragedy, Love, Death, Regret, Faith

"They burnt down the whole palace and they laughed menacingly. The shadows of the dreams and memories they burnt alive walked all over the ruins, trying to hold on to the charred pieces of their body."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Tragedy, Destruction, Memory, Dream, Loss

"She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Tragedy, Beauty, Snow, Destruction, Loss

"Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods - like slashing their wrists or taking an overdose of sleeping pills.Abandoned princesses and Hollywood actresses have provided numerous examples of this."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Tragedy, Suicide, Women, Suffering, Life

"I have brought you a hero's fate, and a hero's fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world."

Faith

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

People

"Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left.There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many people have this nervous trick of a crooked smile, and in many it is even attractive. But in all Syme's circumstances, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness on the great dripping stones, there was something unnerving in it. There was the silent river and the silent man, a man of even classic face. And there was the last nightmare touch that his smile suddenly went wrong."

Emotion

"When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read."

Society

"Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium."

Science

"One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star."

Philosophy

"The pure modernist is merely a snob, he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion."

Culture

"Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can laugh better than the rest."

Society

"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."

Communication

"But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity of a lover. The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy. There never was a man in love who did not declare that, if he strained every nerve to breaking, he was going to have his desire. And there never was a man in love who did not declare also that he ought not to have it."

Love