Quotes About Tragedy

All of it burning. Every memory he ever made. Above Fort National, the dawn becomes deeply, murderously clear. The Milky Way a fading river. He looks across to the fires. He thinks: The universe is full of fuel.

All of it is burning. Every memory he ever made.

Before she turns fourteen, every person she knows will be either enslaved or dead.

Opera houses! Cities on the moon! Ridiculous. They would all do better to put their faces on the curbs and wait for the boys who come through the city dragging sledges stacked with corpses.

In 35 B.C., Sextus Pompeius was executed, presumably with Antony's approval.

He was about twenty-six when he died

Gnaeus escaped the battle, but was quickly caught and killed.

panicked and fled. Many were killed. Ariobarzanes himself escaped into the hills with forty cavalrymen and five thousand foot.

Hirtius rode into Antony's camp and was struck down and killed fighting around the commander's tent.

offered his life for his son's, and was executed. The son then committed suicide. Octavian watched them both die.

in the night, seeing that all hope was gone, every single man committed suicide.

More than twenty thousand men, one third of the army, were lost in the month it took to march

It is as if nothing had ever happened on that bloodstained shore. Had Helen been worth it?

A popular dramatist, Phrynichus, staged a play on the subject of the fall of Miletus. It was a hit and spectators wept at the moving reenactment. This did not do Phrynichus any good. He had laid bare their emotions and people were furious. They made him pay a heavy fine for reminding them of a real-life tragedy with which they were only too painfully familiar. They decreed that no drama on this subject should ever be presented again.

terrible penalty exacted on the survivors of Spartacus' final defeat: thousands were crucified

Of the three legions' fifteen thousand men, few survived to tell the tale.

Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!" He kept the anniversary as a day of deep mourning.

No, far better for the queen to be persuaded to do away with herself.

He immediately set out from Rome, but Agrippa was dead when he arrived.

Sanford, this story that my son appears to have instructed you to tell me features a young man who gets shot in the head nine times at close range with a .38 pistol, once in the chest at close range with a .22 rifle, then bashed over the head by you with the ax two or maybe three times, but even then he was still alive and required a final blow from Stewart. And that was also a blow to the head with the ax. At which point this unfortunate fellow finally decided that this world was not for him.

Their proof-reader tried to kill herself. She shot herself with a gun.

Diana Cowper had planned her funeral and she was going to need it. She was murdered about six hours later that same day.

My mum and dad were Jehovah's Witnesses, which I know sounds crazy but it's the truth. Mum used to go round the island, distributing copies of The Watchtower, door to door.' He paused. 'Do you know what her biggest tragedy was? She ran out of doors.

There was something deeply offensive about turning a tiny incident, a tragedy in an English village, into some sort of Mills & Boon morality tale, and reading it, I felt less bad about her review of Mindgame.