Tragic Outcome Quotes

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.

She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.