13 Movie Quotes about Tragedy (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 28, 2025

Memorable quotes about tragedy, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I sense there's something in the wind that feels like tragedy's at hand.

Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington Speaking in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

2 Terrible news, folks! The worst tragedy of our times!

Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington Speaking in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

3 I was partial to tragedy in my youth. Before experience taught me that life is quite tragic enough without my writing about it.

Burgess Meredith as Ammon in Clash of the Titans (1981)

4 Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? -No. -I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you.

Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

5 Yet out of the ashes of this tragedy we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era in which lion and hyena come together in a great and glorious future.

Matthew Broderick as Simba in The Lion King (1994)

6 So, it's not at all interesting, it's a great tragedy. Though you may think different. -Right. Yeah.

Quote from 36th Chamber of Shaolin

7 What a sad, sad sight. The tragedy of a poor little old kid being ignored by his parents.

Daws Butler as Yogi Bear in Yogi Bear

8 Romeo and Juliet were very much in love when they were wed. They honored every vow, so where are they now? They're dead, dead, very, very dead.

Carol Channing as Ms. Fieldmouse in Thumbelina (1994)

9 You should look upon this tragedy as an episode in the wonderful spectacle of life.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

10 I guess some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.

Jena Malone as Gretchen Ross in Donnie Darko