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. RiversTags: love gold science-fiction tragedy thriller crime-fiction young-adult-fiction crime-thriller teen-fiction adult-fiction mystery-thriller teen-thriller
... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both...
Frederick BuechnerTags: tragedy jesus comedy preacher
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
Frederick BuechnerTags: grace tragedy sin comedy gospel presence
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
James Carlos BlakeTags: first-sentence tragedy self-knowledge
To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after attending an execution at the stake of their respective parents, 'so that they would have nothing to reproach one another with.
Robin BriggsTags: history tragedy witch-hunts
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 HachtonTags: love paranormal-romance tragedy horror heartbreak zombies frankenstein horror-romance xombie
Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.
Rae HachtonTags: love romance melancholy sadness tragedy heartbreak lament breaking-up lovers-love-story lovers-sadness
We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.
Rae HachtonTags: love romance tragedy romeo-and-juliet heartbreak lovers-love-story lovers-quarrel
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.
C.G. JungTags: illusions tragedy tragic cocoon receding
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
Abraham LincolnTags: tragedy comedy abraham-lincoln farce
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