Quotes About Tragedy

Que un hijo muera antes que su padre. Revierte el orden natural de las cosas. —Arrojó su cigarrillo al fuego—. Uno no puede llorar como es debido.

A terrible thing, isn't it?" "What's that, Ari?" "For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things.

hamartia in his character. The fatal flaw

Five Chimneys, by Olga Lengyel

For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things . One can't grieve properly. One can only think of vengeance. - Ari Shamron I

He's got that 'born to lose and lose violently' air about him. That's good.

Before the earthquake, medicine was hard to find. When you went to the hospital, you had to bring your own. In this country, you don't go there until the pain becomes unbearable. Otherwise, you don't consider yourself sick. It's better not to be sick if you can't pay for the medicine. That way, you go from bring in good health to being dead. Illness is a luxury you can't afford if you don't have the means. So you die without ever having been sick.

Une image. Voilà: un jeune couple en train de faire l'amour dans la ville d'Hiroshima, le matin de l'explosion atomique, en 1945. Et la Bombe tombe au moment même où ils parviennent à l'orgasme. Éros et Hiroshima. ÉROSHIMA. Le Sexe et la mort. Les deux plus vieux mythes du monde.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them. This fact bears repeating, as it does not come up at all in Anne Frank's writing. Readers of her diary are aware that the author was murdered in a genocide, but this does not mean that her diary is a work about genocide. If it were, it is unlikely that it would have been anywhere near as universally embraced.

The upstairs was hopeless: all her clothes, Dale's suits, everything belonging to the boys. And everywhere the powerful, sickening smell of ashes and water.

For a second, he was a little relieved. He would always rather deal with the murder of a drug addict. Addicts died young anyway.

cultural values or art treasures destroyed forever, are a tragic proof of where discrimination and contempt of human dignity can lead, especially if they are animated by perverse theories on a presumed difference in the value of races or on the division of men into men of "high worth," "worthy of living," and men who are "worthless," "unworthy of living." Before God, all men are of the same value and importance. (Italics added.)

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

I heard she killed herself," Hunter says. "That would explain why she wasn't moving," Max says.

Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

Los resultados pueden ser devastadores. Recientemente, dos estudiantes universitarios en Oklahoma se dieron por vencidos por sus tarjetas de crédito y se suicidaron, dejando las cuentas en la cama junto a ellos.

I have never seen a contemporary history book that informs students that witch trials were also occurring across the world at that time with 500,000 put to death in Europe,45 including 30,000 in England, 75,000 in France, and 100,000 in Germany.46 Why do modern texts point out the twenty-seven deaths in America but ignore the 500,000 elsewhere? Historical Negativism.

But while talent—not to mention fate, luck and tragedy—all play their role in human destiny, they hardly rank as dependable tools for advancing your own art on a day-to-day basis.

Despite some limited consolations, the human condition is in fact a tragic predicament from which none of us can escape, for the predicament consists not merely in life but also in death.

The Flyboy who got away became president of the United States. What might have been for Warren Earl, Dick, Marve, Glenn, Floyd, Jimmy, the unidentified airman, and all the Others who had lost their lives?...And what might have been for those millions of doomed Japanese boys, abused and abandoned by their leaders? War is the tragedy of what might have been.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.