Quotes About Tragedy

Desire Under the Elms

Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Dear Diary, until now I didn't want to write about this in you because I tried to put it out of my mind, but ever since the Germans are here, all I think about is Marta. She was also just a girl, and still, the Germans killed her. But I don't want them to kill me!"

Oh diary, what have I done to deserve dying so young?

I'm afraid I'm not very clever." Sir Aubrey looked shocked. "Good heavens, boy, I should hope not! The Taverners have never been bookish. Except your poor father, and look what happened to him.

At Auschwitz dying was so easy. Surviving was a full time job.

Recuerdo la nocturna procesión de niños y más niños, tan asustados, tan callados, tan bonitos. Si pudiéramos ver tan solo a uno de ellos se nos partiría el alma. En cambio a los asesinos no se les partió el alma. Más duro, sin embargo, es haberlo vivido.

Auschwitz had originally been a Polish town called O´swie?cim with 12,000 people of whom 5,000 were Jews. Most of those people had been moved out of their homes after the Germans invaded, renamed the town and built and expanded the camp across a huge area.

Many returned after the war to reap the gruesome rewards of what has been called a 'golden harvest', digging up the remains of the victims and sifting through the ash and bones to find any gold teeth or valuable materials that had been overlooked when their bodies and possessions had first been looted by the Nazis.

When 'Ishaqzaade' released, I was going through hell. It didn't matter what I said or did, because I had lost my mother.

The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words can fully express the pain, the rage, the grief, and the futility we New Orleanians felt. For the people who did, words seemed like a feeble protest against a relentless night without end.

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.

I think of events like the Challenger and 9/11 - events that move us so much that we never quite get over them. So it's important to go back and relive those feelings in order to remember how important those events were to us.

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

I remember when the photograph was taken. The famous one, I mean. The one of me being rushed from the Boston Marathon bombing without my legs.

Everyone remembers where they were on 7 July 2005 when four deadly bombs ripped through the heart of London.

I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.