Quotes About Tragedy

You wanted sex. You were cheating on your wife. And because of that, a child died.

I don't mean to be unkind. I liked her. She was young and charismatic and she had allowed her life to be stolen away from her. Although she never said as much, it was clear that Damian's death would give her a chance to start again.

He knew what he was doing. So I never understood how he could have been so bloody stupid. The simple fact of the matter is that there was no reason for him to die.

One fucking smoke and it cost me my job, my pension, my marriage, my whole fucking life.

My son is dead. My other son has been crippled. And she just gets a slap on the wrist. That can't be right.' A spokesperson for Brake, the road safety charity, said: 'Nobody should drive if they are not fully in control of their car.

She had a brittle quality, as if she needed charity herself, but knew that she would never get it. The tragedy that had changed her life was still with her.

The fact is, you're as bad as some of those scum journalists who reported it. Stephanie was a lovely girl, lovely, and for a time we were happy together. But she was a mess. She drank and she took recreational drugs and in the end she died in Barbados. But I wasn't even on the boat when it happened.

One second behind the wheel of a car she shouldn't have been driving and she killed my child and took everything away from me. I'm a Christian. I go to church. I've tried to forgive her. But I'd be lying to you if I said that I wasn't glad when I heard someone had murdered her. It may be a sin and it may be wrong of me

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.

In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.

Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.

I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

It's everyone's dread to lose a child. You lose someone you love so much, so young. It does hit you like nothing else, and there is a bit of you that thinks, well, if you can face that sort of challenge in your life, then it puts everything else into perspective.

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

George Floyd had a rich and loving life that was taken from him.

I felt extremely concerned for the people of Punjab during the 1984 riots and militancy days.

Trayvon exposed a lot of things. I think something positive will come out of it. It's a blessing in disguise. And he will never be forgotten.

I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you describe it, of being right there during 9/11. It was one of the best and the worst experiences.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

These trenches are like Pompeii, sir.