Quotes About Tragedy

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more

Time is passing...yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

It does not take a long time to fall to the ground, even from nine stories up. But it took a lifetime for Yetta. It took every single one of the last moments of her life.

They were Amy and Dan Cahill's parents, people who had died in an accidental fire years ago. Or maybe not so accidental.

mourn the loss of those who die fulfilling their destinies.

Ils sont morts ensemble. Cent mètres à faire. Se coucher. Faire tenir les enfants tranquilles. Les endormir peut-être avec des chansons. Le train s'est arrêté dit-on. Voilà, c'est ça l'histoire.

the mysterious death of lovers without love.

Hiroshima, Mon Amour

Ne mettrez-vous pas fin à sauvage cri, Ce fauve hurlement des bêtes qu'on abat ? Jusqu'à quand, insensé, meurtrissant et meurtri, Dévoreras-tu ta propre substance ?… … Comme un père hébété égorge son enfant, Et prie, ô l'imbécile !

Etymologically, a disaster is a bad star.

Srebrenka lived down at the end of my street. One morning I was supposed to get together with her for coffee, but it was raining like hell all day, so I never went. And that rainy afternoon, she actually did it: she committed suicide. But—when we Slavs do things, we do them big!—she committed not just single but quadruple suicide: She turned on the gas in the oven, cut her wrists, took sleeping pills, and hanged herself.

When they come... they come at what you love.

Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy.

Ah, Sicily, Sicily, he thought, you destroy your best and bring them to dust.

En memoria de los incontables hombres y mujeres de todos los credos, naciones y razas que cayeron víctimas de la creencia fascista y comunista en Las Leyes Inexorables del Destino Histórico»[51].