Quotes About Tragedy

Give me two weeks to have my baby and then you can kill me.

Why did we find it so irresistible to make ourselves into tragic figures with tragic flaws which were responsible for our pain? Maybe unfortunate things just happened; maybe there was just bad luck.

A teenage girl, brutally murdered and left in a trash dumpster; a young man, killed in a firebombing attack; a soccer mom, shot in the living room of her home; vicious thugs whose job is to protect a suspected criminal. Just another week on rotation for LAPD detective Joel Jovanic...until he uncovers a connection between the disturbing series of vicious crimes and Annabelle Giordano, who is in the temporary custody of his soulmate, Claudia Rose.

Before her body is found floating in her Jacuzzi, publicist to the stars Lindsey Alexander had few friends, but plenty of lovers. To her ex-friend Claudia, she was a ruthless, backstabbing manipulator. But even Claudia is shocked by Lindsey's startling final note: It was fun while it lasted.

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and it was. But the way it was done led to tragedy, turning four million people loose with no jobs or trades or learning. And then in 1877 for a few electoral votes, just abandoning them entirely. A huge amount of pain and trouble resulted. Everybody in America is still paying for it.

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.

Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

She had lost all that was most precious in her life.