Quotes About Tragedy

Maybe people with weird haircuts are like structures that become interesting only after being wrecked - Florida ranch houses half-fallen into sinkholes; bankrupt malls; civilizations after a nuclear war. I feel a warm tragic glow knowing I may be of interest to the world only once I have been destroyed.

innocent." Stupid, stupid woman, but a woman whose daughter was lost in the

The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

son of Stefano Mele and Barbara Locci, who was sleeping in the backseat of the car and who witnessed his mother's murder at age six.

A table of statistics for the island of Hispaniola tells the story: Date: 1492 Native Population: ~500,000 (disputed) Date: 1508 Native Population: 60,000 Date: 1510 Native Population: 33,523 Date: 1514 Native Population: 26,334 Date: 1518 [before smallpox] Native Population: 18,000 Date: 1519 [after smallpox] Native Population: 1,000 Date: 1542 Native Population: 0

I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul.

Evolution extracts a price. What is the price? Sickness, old age, and death; tragedy, hunger, sorrow, pain, and suffering—all these must exist in order for evolution to operate. Without death there can be no evolution.

It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Woe, woe for the doom that shall be--as in grasp of the foeman they fare! For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!

Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow!

She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...

Love can be a very frightening thing." "That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.

It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?

Clotilde, Miss Marple thought, was certainly no Ophelia, but she would have made a magnificent Clytemnestra---she could have stabbed a husband in his bath with exultation. But since she had never had a husband, that solution wouldn't do. Miss Marple could not see her murdering anyone else but a husband---and there had been no Agamemnon in this house.

L'amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?

They wish not to become adult—not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

Men get killed and nobody minds.

Hasta el propio Romeo, como sabes, tuvo su Rosalinda antes de que le sorbiera el seso Julieta.

It seems so awful somehow that it should be such a lovely day.

Dead? Dead? That young Norse God in the prime of his health and strength. Struck down all in a moment. Healthy young men didn't die like that, choking over a whiskey and soda...