"The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer."

Tragedy, Burden, World, Sorrow, Heart

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"Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Tragedy, Death, Silence, Shame, Violence

"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

"How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June" . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for that-I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Tragedy, Youth, Aging, Desire, Soul

"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

"And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Tragedy, War, Youth, Death

"Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy."

Jonathan Anthony Burkett, American Author

Tragedy, Misery, Death, Happiness, Pain

"The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"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

"But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there:For flowers have been known to heal A common man's despair."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Tragedy, Despair, Hope, Prison, Nature

"I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Tragedy, War, Children, Death, Murder

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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"Something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope."

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"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."

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"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

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"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."

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"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."

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"Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself."

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"It's beauty that captures your attention, personality that captures your heart.."

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"Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times."

"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."

"And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered."

"Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy."

"The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic."

"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."

"But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there:For flowers have been known to heal A common man's despair."

"I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same."

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"My Salome is a mystic the sister SalammbA - a Saint ThA©rA se who worships the moon."

"Something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope."

"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."

"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."

"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."

"Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself."

"It's beauty that captures your attention, personality that captures your heart.."