Quotes About Tragedy

The system has little capacity for self-criticism; it appraises others, not itself. It didn't even allow itself to hear the full story behind the actions it was judging, and it certainly didn't recognize that the legal system's own shortcomings were a significant contributing factor in the tragedy.

I feel such sorrow when I think how horror imitates beauty.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.

Sometimes you can't save everyone. Sometimes all you can do... is kill a whole bunch of people.

The Benders had died in a helicopter explosion but were otherwise in perfect health.

Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present.

Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28 million deported, of whom 18 million had slaved in the Gulags. Yet, after so much slaughter, they were still believers.

Lenin and Stalin created the idiosyncratic Soviet system in the image of their ruthless little circle of conspirators before the Revolution. Indeed much of the tragedy of Leninism-Stalinism is comprehensible only if one realizes that the Bolsheviks continued to behave in the same clandestine style whether they formed the government of the world's greatest empire in the Kremlin or an obscure little cabal in the backroom of a Tiflis tavern.

Fulk the Black, Count of Anjou and founder of the Angevin dynasty that later ruled England, came on pilgrimage after he had burned his wife alive in her wedding-dress having found her guilty of adultery with a swineherd.

War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.

Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present. No

Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28 million deported, of whom 18 million had slaved in the Gulags. Yet, after so much slaughter, they were still believers. At

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon

The Last Theorem is at the heart of an intriguing saga of courage, skulduggery, cunning, and tragedy, involving all the greatest heroes of mathematics.

His life was merely a slow-moving tragedy, an act of steady dying conducted before everyone's eyes.

One newcomer, asked why he had killed his wife and children, told the superintendent: "I don't know why I am telling you all of this. It's none of your business As a matter of fact it was none of the judge's business either. It was a purely family affair.

We lost lovely youth facing the rough clouds of war

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

A man's tragedy is himself, not the events that overtake him, and the same Main Street slight and condescension that put cloud over Philip for life, Steve is emerging from already and shaking off.

He first deceased; she for a little triedTo live without him, liked it not, and died.

Through this man [Launcelot] and me [Guenever] hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.