Quotes About Tragedy

On November 16, 2009, Sergei Magnitsky died in prison at the age of thirty-seven.

He died of peritonitis.

Everyone had their own turning point," he explained to me. "Mine was Beslan.

The real tragedy of nationalised education is how little innovation it has seen.

Ä°ki prion uzman?n yazd??? gibi, ''kiÅŸisel trajedilerin, etnik felaketlerin ve ekonomik y?k?mlar?n asl?, küçük bir molekülün haylazca yanl?? katlanmas?nda aranabilir.

Oh ! étrangeté des rêves éveillés où l'esprit s'envole dans un monde irréel et possible ! Rien n'y étonne ; rien n'y choque ; et la fantaisie débridée ne distingue plus le comique et le lúgubre.

People always talk about this like it's some lurid slasher movie," Allison went on. "I lost my sister. Some bastard took my sister from me. I feel like Carson used her memory, gave us that reading room, to try to worm his way in. He can go to hell. But I didn't mean to catch you in the crossfire.

When something horrific happens, you sort of feel like you have to stay? Until justice is done. Which it never was.

Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood.

She was looking at his face; it was the face she had known...There was no sign of tragedy, no bitterness, no tension—only the radiant mockery, matured and stressed, the look of dangerously unpredictable amusement, and the great, guiltless serenity of spirit.

In another Nabokov novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight , Sebastian's brother discovers two seemingly incongruous pictures in his dead brother's library: a pretty, curly-haired child playing with a dog and a Chinese man in the act of being beheaded. The two pictures remind us of the close relation between banality and brutality.

When two of my cousins were killed by the Islamic regime, some of my relatives who were now on the side of the government called my uncle to congratulate him on the death of his son and daughter-in-law.

While farce and tragedy have always been foils for each other, it is rare, she maintains, other than in works of Russian and southern literature, that they are superimposed one upon the other so that their effects are experienced simultaneously.

There were many such instances, when expressions of sympathy could not be exchanged. What do you say to someone who is telling you about the rape and murder of virgins—I'm sorry, I feel your pain?

Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity - one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America.

As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or

Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity—one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America.

You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless.

In 1918, a strain of H1N1 that came to be known as "the Spanish flu" had infected an estimated half a billion people and killed somewhere between 50 and 100 million—roughly 4 percent of the world's population. In Philadelphia alone, more than 12,000 died in the span of a few weeks.

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed. --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people

although Michelle's tastes and mine often diverged: She preferred rom-coms, while according to her, my favorite movies usually involved "terrible things happening to people, and then they die.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

fallen hero shatters into more sharp pieces than you'd believe.