P. D. James Quotes about Tragedy

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The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

Loss, Grieving, Tragedy

P. D. James (2008). “Original Sin”, p.41, Faber & Faber

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

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Alzheimer's, Tragedy, Disease

P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.240, Vintage

He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?

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Love You, Tragedy, Half

P.D. James (2015). “P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness”, p.807, Simon and Schuster