Best Modern Tragedy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Being attached to someone you never actually had is a special kind of purgatory. It’s a waiting room in hell where the numbers are never called. You are a victim of a disaster that is entirely undocumented. You can't even claim the wreckage to the rest of the world, because technically, officially, the ship never sailed.”

Validation The New Sincerity Modern Tragedy Ambiguous Loss Phantom Ex Unauthorized Heartbreak Situationship Grief Emotional Bureaucracy Purgatory Romance Undocumented Wreckage

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“There is the kind of death that puts you in the ground, and then there is the morning after you let someone you love go.”

Shadow Work The New Sincerity Modern Tragedy Visceral Reality The Morning After Unauthorized Heartbreak Emotional Survival Heartbreak Hangover Living Grief The Waking Death

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Everybody thinks they're gonna get a polite, formally drafted two-week notice before the lights go out. It’s a tragic, hilarious joke. The Grim Reaper doesn't care about your schedule.”

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Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Your death ain't gonna be some grand, dramatic exit. It will come on an ordinary, aggressively mundane day, right in the dead middle of your meticulously unfinished plans. You’re gonna drop dead on a random, unremarkable Tuesday afternoon. You’ll be in the middle of complaining about the traffic, or worrying about your 401k, or drafting an email to someone you don't even like. You're gonna leave behind a half-finished to-do list pinned to the fridge with a cheap magnet. There will be wet laundry sitting in the dryer. You will die with a whole lot of 'somedays' still tucked uselessly in your pocket.”

Reality Check Memento Mori The New Sincerity Existential Dread Modern Tragedy Visceral Reality Main Character Syndrome Someday Syndrome The Banality Of Death Wet Laundry Grief

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I’m sorry I got away. I had to. I was terrified of a simple life and I was too young to know that you don't find people like you twice.”

Shadow Work The One That Got Away Modern Tragedy Phantom Ex The Cost Of Seeing Anti Wanderlust Belated Epiphany Existential Grief Hyper Independence Hangover The Nomads Regret

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“You know whats the worst thing in the damn world? It’s the alarm clock on a Monday morning. You go out and see the world, and you feel blood pumping in your veins. You feel like a human being. Then you come back. To the traffic. To the boss who hates his wife. To the rent. You trade the sunsets for a paycheck. You trade your life for a little bit of comfort. It’s not a life. It’s a waiting room for death. And the worst part is, now that you’ve seen the exit... staying feels like suicide.”

Shadow Work The New Sincerity Modern Tragedy Visceral Reality The Morning After Unauthorized Heartbreak Emotional Survival Heartbreak Hangover Living Grief The Waking Death

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.”

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Author:George McGovern

“The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.”

Made Literature Social Fate Modern Weakness Destruction Tragedy Code Transgression Irrevocable Modern Tragedy

Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

“God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”

Men War Real Home Young Dies Fighting Peace Enemy Modern Tragedy Historical Young Man Anti War Antiwar Back Home Modern War Fighting Each Other Modern Tragedy

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”

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Author:Salvador Dali

“Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.”

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Author:Asghar Farhadi

“It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.”

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Author:Oscar Hammerstein II