Quotes About Tragedy

Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

How about that oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. And you know, the oil slick is going everywhere. So the next time somebody lands on the Hudson, it won't be that big a deal.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up.

Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the memorial to determine whether or not we're being effective in dealing with it?

Hank Williams was one of the greatest writers of all time, and it's very sad that his career lasted for only six years.

I couldn't remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn't put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million.

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

Tragedy plus time equals humor.

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.

PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD AND RIDERS TO THE SEA, J. M. Synge. 80pp. 0-486-27562-0 THE