Quotes About Tragedy

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

Even one death is horrible.

Broadchurch' is shot through with the fear of being a parent: what's the most horrific loss you can imagine and how could you go on living afterwards?

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

You can make me laugh at a thing that I think is horrific. You can make me laugh at a thing that affects me personally. But if you've done your homework and you've gone about it the right way, it will still be funny.

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.

I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.

I lost a sister to pneumonia, when she was 2 years old. She died at home, not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

I've been on some very good horses which have died, and that's very tough to take. But as much as we love the horses, and care for them, human life is obviously more important. Some good friends of mine have died or been paralysed while doing a job we all love.

As a young black American you become desensitised to it, it's just like 'oh, another guy, another kid died today.' That's so, so sad cos we are talking about human life, the most sacred thing we have.

The meek and the humble died at Mt. Carmel. And the strong and the arrogant - the FBI and the ATF - lived.

The maimings of love are endlessly funny....

The Days were a clan that mighta lived long But Ben Day's head got screwed on wrong That boy craved dark Satan's power So he killed his family in one nasty hour Little Michelle he strangled in the night Then chopped up Debby: a bloody sight Mother Patty he saved for last Blew off her head with a shotgun blast Baby Libby somehow survived But to live through that ain't much a life —SCHOOLYARD RHYME, CIRCA 1985

Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment—at least one moment—when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name?

Every tragedy that happens in the world happens to my mother