Quotes About Tragedy

consumption that had accounted for his father, his elder brother and his bastard son, and which was soon to carry off his legitimate son, King Edward VI.

La tormenta derriba un árbol que cae encima de un cable de alta tensión, que a su vez cae en un charco y carga el agua de una electricidad letal que mata al hombre que pasea a su perro sin sospechar nada cuando escampa y aparecen las estrellas en el cielo.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. The great flaw in the

That it was sparing young people struck me as an enormous blessing, for there is nothing more devastating than the death of children.

The original Marx quote (rough) History repeats twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. The addition by Leonard; Technology repeats twice, the first time as farce, and the second as tragedy

The death of Baldr is one of the most important moments in the mythology.

It wasn't overwhelmingly catastrophic he killed himself. Most people who mess about with heroin, they lose their souls way earlier, it's just waiting for the body to keel over.

I can't pretend to know what it feels like to lose a child, but I assume it's the worst pain I've ever felt times a thousand, or times a hundred thousand.

The giddy, head-over-heels infatuation faded; it mellowed into something else. You got married, then divorced. Or your husband killed himself. Or your brain synapses became encased in gooey plaque and you started putting the frying pan in the icebox instead of in the cabinet where it belonged.

her jump off the George Washington Bridge. Her other attorney

The most amazing aspect of life, Beth thought, was the way that time passed—the days, the months, one following the next without slowing down or stopping for tragedy or triumph.

At the hospital, an unfamiliar doctor told them that Vivi hadn't made it. She didn't make it was too gentle a phrase because it sounded like Vivi hadn't made it this time but could maybe try again.

Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell?

Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit – in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. (Hardin 1968, p. 1,244)

Since Garrett Hardin's challenging article in "Science" (1968), the expression "the tragedy of the commons" has come to symbolize the degradation of the environment to be expected whenever many individuals use a scarce resource in common.

Everyone here constantly laughed at tragedy, as if insulting misfortune would keep it at bay.

On average, twelve hundred Congolese had been killed every day since 1998. Five point four million. And it wasn't nearly over yet.

Tarik was dead. Lumeo was dead. An

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

Great passion led so easily to great tragedy.