Quotes About Tragedy

I didn't know that Left Eye's dad passed away right when she wanted to tell him that she just signed to LaFace Records. After I signed to Jive Records and just before I put out my first album, my mother passed away. It was very odd how much we had in common.

I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'

I must carry on—for my mates, for England, for Rose and for our child. The alternative is unthinkable. With this, I understand the perverse logic of war and the true tragedy of armed conflict. The enemy against whom we fight are human beings like ourselves, individuals with whom each of us might have been friends except for the deranged fictions of nation, doctrine, race and religion, and whom now we must murder (as they seek to murder us) in the name of those very same fictions.

The good alone die young.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

gunshot wound to the head. He called 911.

Dino put his feet up and chatted for a couple of minutes, then he put down the phone and returned to the table. Okay, he said, the ME confirms his first estimate of time of death. The girl had a tiny purse tucked into her vagina, just big enough to hold her driver's license, a credit card, and a few bucks. Her name is Elizabeth Sweeney.

Some people die accidentally. It's a fact.

my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.

I pictured a section of the ladies' auxiliary cookbook for Sudden Death Quick Snacks... Using ingredients one could keep on the pantry shelf in the event of tragedy.

I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. There's a place in you that is inviolate. You'll find your way there, when you need to. And you'll know then what I speak of.

My first and only memory of my mother was the day she died.

All shall be well," Yaltha had told me, and when I'd recoiled at how trite and superficial that sounded, she'd said, "I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. There's a place in you that is inviolate. You'll find your way there, when you need to. And you'll know then what I speak of.

I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. There's a place in you that is inviolate. You'll find your way there, when you need to. And you'll know then what I speak of.

The words opened a raw, furious place in me. She wanted me to write? My daughter was dead. My writing was dead, too. One day had never come. I was the shattered pieces on the floor. Life had taken a mallet to me.

As the procession began again, I noticed that the strap on one of my sandals had broken when I fell. I stooped and removed both shoes. I would go to my husband's execution as he did. Barefoot.

There was Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, who was raped by Shechem. Tamar, the daughter of King David, raped by her half brother.

But her sweet-tooth daughter isn't as lucky. She drank falooda mixed with morphine.

Their eyes were usually open, and they stared up at the moon that had killed them.

Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet.