Quotes About Tragedy

Alrededor todo era rojo, como el escenario de una terrible tragedia de venganza donde la sangre se convierte en eco de la sangre

He wouldn't be the first man to have died from dropping a lit joint.

his obligations were few. They could, in fact, be boiled down to one: to find the one who had taken his wife and child from this world and tear him apart.

My grandmother's is the world that dropped the bomb—itself a slick object—so elegantly smooth it managed to slip past American consciousness, past enemy lines.

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

At 9:15 on Thursday morning, June 4, while Jordan Delreese was bludgeoning his two young children to death, I was sitting in Dr. Hamburger's consulting room at the Sunny Isles Geriatric Clinic with my father, who was just then at a loss for words.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.