Quotes About Tragedy

He was like a holy person in a Bible story, someone who can heal the ripped and infected parts of you with a laying-on of hands. You know how Bible stories go. That kind of person, they're never around long. Losers and jerks put nails in them and watch the air run out.

Todo dia é 11 de setembro – disse ela. – Como é possível viver quando todo dia é 11 de setembro?

The people who had witnessed the mushroom cloud rising from Hiroshima could've felt no less.

It was entirely possible, she saw now, for them to have their cake and rape and murder it, too.

There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyonealways dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your children. Or your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.

It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

You are never going to stop me from achieving my goal, Perry. You ought to know that by now. Do you wish to know the definition of a tragic hero?""Not particularly.""A tragic hero is an individual who, with every attempt to restore things to normal, only pushes himself further away from normalcy."She nodded. "That is you, Perry.

The only thing that didn't seem to belong here was the hospital room itself. It would have been more appropriately suited to someone who was actually fighting for his life, or at least trying to get well. My eyes kept going back to the Post headline running in huge capital letters above the aerial photo of our house, or what had been our house, blasted to pieces and burned to the ground. Blown away.

Several fans around the world committed suicide.

The Jews of Europe had been foolish to entrust their safety and security to anyone but themselves. What if they had been organized? What if they had been armed and trained and immobilized? No one could have sent them to concentration camps to perish by the hundreds of thousands.

in damages to the families of the American victims. Yet

Sometime when two people love each other, it's really unfortunate.

People helping each other in the aftermath of tragedy is the only really convincing argument for people.

Aki az élet tragédiáit bölcs belátással akarná végigcsinálni, azonnal megfosztaná magát az élettÅ'l. Csakis a balgaság nyújt vigaszt: eltévelyedni, tévedni, tudatlannak lenni nem más, mint embernek lenni.

O?evidno je da ne postoji nikakav smisao povijesti koji bi se dao spasiti le?ima okrenutim prema Auschwitzu niti postoji Bog kojemu se ?ovjek može klanjati le?a okrenutih prema Auschwitzu. Kao teološko-politi?ka katastrofa Auschwitz ne ostavlja pošte?enima niti krš?anstvo i njegovu teologiju niti društvo i njegovu politiku.

15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.