Quotes About Tragedy

Henry Footit was run over yesterday - that was his dog. One of those smooth-haired fox terriers, rather stout and quarrelsome, that butchers always seem to have.

A fost un om bun! Cum sa fi murit de cancer?!

I didn't see her die, but I did hear her one and only scream

Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted

Qué trágico que el hombre nunca pueda darse cuenta de lo hermosa que es la vida hasta que se encuentra cara a cara con la muerte

The relative who had said "What are you doing?" when I was paralyzed at the sight of my brother's corpse had not been able to intimidate me, but I could not forgive myself for what I had said to my mother. And how terrible the results had been for my brother. What a fool I am!

Since I had been doing nothing but follow my brother's lead, his suicide sent me spinning like a top. I believe this was a very dangerous turning point in my life.

This was truly the worst natural disaster Americans had ever seen. While death tolls would always be imperfect, it's fair to say that around 10,000 people perished in one night. And

Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.

So yet another man had encountered the morass of my family and felt the only solution was to put a gun to his head. This does not bode well.

She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.

Then, after you have killed as many Americans as you can," Sano added, "you are to use the other grenade to kill yourself.

Where were you when the world stopped turning

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

sea in a terrible storm off Cape St Vincent. All hands were lost. The ship

Solange's infant did not survive beyond the first week of life. She was lowered into the ground on March 7, bearing the name Jeanne-Gabrielle.

He knew the terrible tales of sea otters choking on polyethylene rings from beer six-packs; of swans and gulls strangled by nylon nets and fishing lines; of a green sea turtle in Hawaii dead with a pocket comb, a foot of nylon rope, and a toy truck wheel lodged in its gut. His personal worst

Centralia, a mining town in Pennsylvania made uninhabitable by an underground fire that began in 1962 and is still burning today (the road into town bears the graffiti legend "Welcome to Hell");

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.