Quotes About Tragedy

She died instantly, said Kateri, implying she'd not had time to use a bookmark.

Eliza's death, far from putting the whole situation to rest, only inflamed John's feelings anew, complicating his stormy relationship with his father.

Jody had watched other classmates, including many in college prep, enter such a life with an impatient fatalism. They got pregnant or arrested or simply dropped out. Some boys, more defiant, filled the junkyards with crushed metal. Crosses garlanded with flowers and keepsakes marked roadsides where they'd died. You could see it coming in the smirking yearbook photos they'd left behind.

But as Rachel watched the sheriff enter the front door, it was hard to believe the farmhouse itself was still there, because a place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world. The earth itself shouldn't be able to abide it.

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a place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world. The earth itself shouldn't be able to abide it.

To add a dash of picturesqueness to her career, her husband, it was said, was doing his utmost to get rid of her; and although she had been in an aeroplane disaster, a fatal gala performance, two railway accidents, and a shipwreck, she always came back - smiling.

I know this issue is very controversial. But unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary. We should rise above bitterness and reproach, and if Americans could come together in a spirit of understanding and helping, then we could find positive solutions to the tragedy of abortion.

Esa helada, calmada, enlutada mujer, la autómata en la que se había convertido Marie», dice su hija Ève. Pero, por dentro, ardía la demencia pura de la pena.

En su novela El diario de Edith, Patricia Highsmith, esa gran conocedora de los demonios del amor, decía que, en el paroxismo del dolor pasional, los hombres mataban y las mujeres se suicidaban. Pero no, no siempre era así.

Sólo se muere de amor en las malditas óperas.

Tengo miedo de una cosa que vive y que no se ve. Tengo miedo a la desgracia traidora que viene, y que nunca se sabe dónde viene. Adrianie, donde estas.

She stared at him, accepting for the first time the fact that personal tragedy is just that. Personal. Your own existence could fall to pieces but that did not mean that the rest of the world necessarily knew about it, or even bothered." ? Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House

She stared at him, accepting for the first time the fact that personal tragedy is just that. Personal. Your own existence could fall to pieces but that did not mean that the rest of the world necessarily knew about it, or even bothered.

the Supreme Court ruling and forced their Indians into Indian Territory (Oklahoma), along what has come to be called the infamous "Trail of Tears." Although

And, they would still be alive today...If they hadn't died, that is

Condemned to death, the Delawares spent the night praying and singing hymns. In the morning, Williamson's men marched over ninety people in pairs into two houses and methodically slaughtered them.

As Cherokees fled, abandoning their towns and fields, the soldiers seized, killed, and scalped women and children, taking no prisoners.51

A SON My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I knew What it was, and it might serve me in a time when jests are few.

If we feel and learn nothing from the tragedies of the past, then we'll never know how to truly help avoid those same tragedies in the future. Certainly, we can't avoid all pain and suffering, but we can and should learn from it.

Raquela stood at her side. "Your baby was stillborn. But you're all right." The mother screamed, "Even this they deny me! They take away my land. My freedom. Now my baby. Let me die. I want to die.

Tragically, most of the Jews of Italy have been deported or massacred.

Rahu ajal matavad lapsed isasid, kuid sõja ajal isad lapsi.

Vede bem, habitantes de Tebas, meus concidadãos! Este é Édipo, decifrador dos enigmas famosos; ele foi um senhor poderoso e por certo o invejastes em seus dias passados de prosperidade invulgar. Em que abismos de imensa desdita ele agora caiu! Sendo assim, até o dia fatal de cerrarmos os olhos não devemos dizer que um mortal foi feliz de verdade antes dele cruzar as fronteiras da vida inconstante sem jamais ter provado o sabor de qualquer sofrimento!