Quotes About Tragedy

The tragedy of life lies not in not reaching your goals, but in having no goals to reach.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer -and if so, why?

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

I was born at the end of the 1993. The regime stopped giving food to the people. Three million people died from 1995 to 1998. It's one of the world's worst man-made famines in history.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.

I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.

My granddad passed away a month before I started shooting for 'Ishaqzaade,' and my mom died just before the film's release, both within a year of each other.

9/11 is probably the main reason I didn't release an album for five years.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

I always, always have the Holocaust on my mind.

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.