Quotes About Tragedy

Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.

9/11 absolutely happened.

In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.

Smoking-related heart disease runs in my family. My grandfather and great-grandfather died in their early 40s.

My grandmother passed away from diabetes. And my father died from heart disease as a result of diabetes. They were in their early 60s.

Every time you turn on the TV, you see some kind of heartbreaking story.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

But I did get to see the Notre-Dame cathedral, which was really special to me. I'm completely heartbroken over the fire, but I'm really glad that they're gonna be able to salvage it.

I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

My best friend died in a high-speed chase.

Something that's a hilarious comedy, for someone else might be a drama.

By this edition of HAMLET I hope to help the student of Shakspere to understand the play—and first of all Hamlet himself, whose spiritual and moral nature are the real material of the tragedy, to

Now Malcolm was back again, but he came once too often, and was killed at Alnwick in 1093.

The golden age, of Scotland, of Anglo-Scottish harmony, and of the Border country, ended when King Alexander III of Scotland fell over a cliff in 1286. Few stumbles—if indeed His Majesty was not pushed—have been more important than that one.

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

and it is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life

The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten

Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

Invidia e un lucru oribil. Se deosebeste de toate celelalte suferinte pentru ca nu poate fi deghizata, nu poate fi inaltata pana la tragedie. E mai mult decat simpla durere, e dezgustatoare.