Quotes About Tragedy

The victim was last seen in the spillway from Lake Charleston into the Embarras River, which is in Coles County, Illinois. Four wrestling team members decided to slide down the spillway during a flood. Two drowned. One body washed out of the spillway the following day.

I have always believed that places with a long history, especially those in which terrible events have taken place, retain something of those times, some trace in the air.

American flag appeared on the screen. "Between 2001 and 2012, nearly sixty-five hundred American soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. During that same period of time—" the screen shifted to the face of a battered woman clutching two small children "—almost twelve thousand women were murdered by their husbands, boyfriends or a former partner. Even now, three women are murdered every single day by the man who claims to love them.

We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

Pleasure of tragedy is vicarious suicide

When tragedy strikes, I must remember to breathe until I get to the fun part again.

The disaster came so swiftly and so completely that there was, Ryan conceded, a certain poetry in its magnificence.

informed by real events. The case of Brittany Smith, who in 2018 shot and killed her rapist and was subsequently indicted for murder

In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.

The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic. Quoted by someone with a very sick imagination but misattributed to Stalin

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Dopo una tragedia, molti dei superstiti si sentono perduti.

No one ever understood disaster until it came.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

The sorrows of humanity are no one's sorrows, as newspaper readers long ago found out. A frisson of horror may go down one's spine at wholesale destruction but one's heart stays unmoved. A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

I'd have to run away to New York and be a hooker and eat a pound of heroin and die.

Every divorce is a unique tragedy because every divorce brings an end to a unique civilization—one built on thousands of shared experiences, memories, hopes, and dreams. E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly, For Better or for Worse: Divorce Reconsidered

In 1960, Joy wrote of her experiences raising Elsa in the bestselling book Born Free which was adapted into an Academy award-winning film. In 1980 Joy was tragically murdered on her reserve, but her conservation work continues through the Elsemere Trust.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.