Quotes About Tragedy

Every triumph has to overcome the fear of tragedy.

For grief is crowned with consolation.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...

annihilation. "Money flows toward short term gain," writes the geologist David Archer, "and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources. These tendencies are like the invisible hand of fate, guiding the hero in a Greek tragedy toward his inevitable doom." This is indeed the essence of humanity's present derangement.

You've held the world in your hands for thousands of years and you've turned it into a horror show.

I was with a girlfriend of mine last night and we were talking about David Foster Wallace. It's been three years since he killed himself, I said. And she said, Yep. Waited a beat. And he's still dead.

But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn't begin to express in their fragile English.

With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang.

Most of the girls were like me, the love children of suicides, singsong girls, and unmarried maidens.

What happened in Nanking, I couldn't claim that as my tragedy. I was not affected. I was not killed.

We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.

Whatever tragic spirit lay behind this polished surface went into her singing, with which she tore people's serenity to shreds, spreading anxiety and regrets and nostalgia everywhere.

The whole world is based on fear, even behind the jealousy of the day before lay dear. Fear of being alone, fear of being abandoned, fear of life, fear of being trapped in tragedy, fear of the animal in us, fear of one's hatred, of committing a crime, fear of cancer, of syphilis, of starvation.

All the tragedy lay in trying to fit a boundless and insatiable love into human proportions, into one love.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

There is no good that comes from the storm, no silver lining, no Hollywood ending. Death descends. Lives are lost.

There is nothing more tragic for a man who has been expecting to die than a long convalescence.

You damn well better believe that you're involved in this tragedy and that it's your tragedy too. Because you're turned into little soldier boys from the day that you are born and everything that you learn about how to avoid the humanity of women becomes part of the militarism of the country in which you live and the world in which you live.

Nous avons dit non. (...) Il y a une réponse à notre non. Un fusil semi-automatique est une réponse. Il y a aussi des poignards. Ce que nous vivons n'est pas une conversation plaisante. sur la tuerie de Montréal

was killed at Bridge of Dee, September