Quotes About Tragedy

Some family's boat capsized at Lake Winnipesaukee the day before and now they were looking for the father's body.

It turned out that horrifying things could happen to ordinary-looking people. Unimaginable things could happen in the most regular places.

THE NEXT DAY THEY FOUND the body of Charlene Gray lying in a thicket of young madrone just below the Steep Ravine Trail, near where it intersected with Little Salmon Creek.

killed before her, had been covered in tape, in the

Some family's boad capsized at Lake Winnipesaukee the day before and now they were looking for the father's body.

Pero eso, tragedias en prosa, es lo que son las novelas que he mencionado, o así he llegado a pensar de ellas" (Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, Los demonios, Bajo la mirada de Occidente, Mientras agonizo y Bajo el volcán)

La tragedia absoluta proclama axiomáticamente que es mejor no nacer o, en en caso que esto ya no sea posible, morir joven. El modelo <> de la condición del hombre y de la mujer considera a éstos intrusos no deseados de la creación, seres destinados a padecer sufrimientos y frustraciones inmerecidos, incomprensibles y arbitrarios

Pero todos comparten la misma falla trágica; todos tuvieron la opción de salvarse y tomaron el camino de la catástrofe; y sus novelas son dedicados estudios de ese largo error y de sus consecuencias.

prehistoric humans who discovered death reacted by celebrating life. Through self-adornment and embellishment, they affirmed their existence, defying the final tragedy to come. They employed symbolism to express their immense joy at being alive (still).

La aceptación serena de la tragedia, este pasearse tranquilamente entre el más acá y el Más Allá, es lo que daba al español de antaño su gravedad honda, su aplomo honrado y sufriente, su firmeza ante la adversidad. El español de antaño sabía que el más acá es un valle de lágrimas que hay que caminar con entereza, para ser digno acreedor de un Más Allá de caricias encendidas y venas vibradoras

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

The charge of the Light Brigade was forever memorialized as a moment of glorious sacrifice, as needless slaughters ordered by shortsighted generals so often are.

It was in the spring of 1939 that Hitler finally set in motion a "racial hygiene" policy that he had wanted to pursue for many years, namely the systematic killing of those who were mentally or physically disabled. He made his intentions clear in an address to the Nuremberg Rally tenyears earlier when he had argued that if of the million or so children born each year in Germany 70,000 to 80,000 of the weakest were removed, the nation would be made correspondingly stronger.

Once the means to kill children had been established, it was only a matter of months before the programme was extended to include adults living in asylums or other such institutions.

What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn't be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.

que tenía delante. Tropezó y… cayó delante de un tanque que pasó por encima de ella.

He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.

Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly. "Where would Romeo and Juliet be?" "Alive.

He felt a bit like Romeo to her Juliet, minus the feuding families and poison. And with pigeons.