Quotes About Tragedy

There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it.

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five.

Marvin Gaye Music superstar Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father. In court the father said, "This is probably the worst thing I've ever done." Probably??????

Burke laughed, but there wasn't any humor in his voice. "Romeo and Juliet died, son. Consider that all the answer you need.

If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy.

There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.

He realized that this tragedy was meant to be and knew intrinsically that from it there were life lessons to be learned by either her or those involved. Such was the way of life for humans.

History is littered with dead good men.

A bitter ending' said Yarvi. 'Many sweet stories have them', said Jaud.

The plane blew up." "I wonder what happened to all the other people?" As soon as I'd spoken, I wished I hadn't said that. I decided shy people shouldn't try to make conversation, not even in an emergency. If I manage to talk to strangers at all, nervousness always makes me say the wrong thing.

No mother should lose her child.

It was the rare actor who brought authenticity to the screen; one exception was Tom Mix, a former ranch hand from Oklahoma. The "King of the Cowboys," Mix made over 160 films and was a frequent visitor when Wyatt and Josephine were in Los Angeles, sometimes accompanying Wyatt to the racetrack. William S. Hart was another Earp acolyte. Where Tom Mix was a rough-and-ready showman, Hart was classically trained, as comfortable in a Shakespearean tragedy as he was in a Western.

This was not a tragedy. Dying on your couch watching TV by yourself is a tragedy. Dying while doing something you love with every part of your body is magic. I wish you magic, Edward.

Why is it," an old news anchor growls, "that out of all the terrible news in this terrible world, we care so much about this one downed plane and this one little boy?

Popular Mechanics article entitled "What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447

The Taking of MH370.

Edward swallows. Like a dutiful student, he follows her train of thought. Voldemort equals plane crash. Dead parents equal dead parents. Harry equals him.

Dying on your couch watching TV by yourself is a tragedy. Dying while doing something you love with every part of your body is magic.

Sylvie had talked about one-two punches, about how Charlie had died on the day Izzy was born, and Sylvie had clearly used her magic to somehow bring William his daughter on the day his heart broke. His wife was trying to save him, yet again.

Ann Napolitano

I ended that letter, 'There is nothing in this life that is a complete tragedy - nothing - try to remember that.' Looking back, I wonder at my naiveté. Some things in life ARE complete tragedies. Ted Bundy's story may well be one of them.

Looking back, we see it is often casual choices which chart a path to tragedy.