Quotes About Tragedy

The claim 'I was only following orders' has been used to justify too many tragedies in our history.

My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking, black-clad men bringing a coffin, and they will put him in it, my poor boy, my only child.

In times of exceptional stress, nature will often give people's behavior so tragical a complexion that neither a picture nor a verbal description is competent to represent its titanic energy.

Este es uno de los secretos de casi todas las revoluciones y el destino trágico de sus caudillos: sin tener sed de sangre, verse obligados a derramarla.

Denn nur Ehrgeiz entzündet sich am Zufall des Erfolges und leichten Gelingens, nichts aber erhebt dermaßen herrlich das Herz als der Untergang eines Menschen im Kampf gegen die unbesiegbare Übermacht des Geschicks, diese allezeit großartigste aller Tragödien, die manchmal ein Dichter und tausendmal das Leben gestaltet.

Zweig hace resucitar una vez más la figura trágica del capitán Scott, que nos mostró que en el hundimiento hay gloria y que puede otorgarse vida a otros mientras uno pierde la suya propia.

Desde aquella noche en la que el hombre que yo más veneraba me abrió su destino como se abre una dura concha, desde aquella noche de hace cuarenta años, me parece infantil e insignificante todo lo que nuestros narradores y poetas cuentan en los libros como extraordinario y todo lo que en los teatros se disfraza de tragedia.

Tragische Spannung, sie ergibt sich nicht nur aus dem Übermaß einer Gestalt, sondern jederzeit aus dem Mißverhältnis eines Menschen zu seinem Schicksal.

It was always the same, the whole pack throughout history who called cautious people cowards, humane people weak, only to be at a loss themselves in the hour of disaster that they had rashly conjured up. Because the pack were always the same. They had mocked Cassandra in Troy, Jeremiah in Jerusalem, and I had never before understood the tragedy of those great figures as I did now, in a time so like theirs.

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Tutto a te mi guida - Totul ma duce spre tine - cuvinte mai adevarate ca oricand, in acele zile cand Maria Antoaneta se afla la un pas de moarte. Fersen stia ca inima ei a batut pentru dansul pana in ultima clipa. Cu cele cinci cuvinte - ultim salut de despartire in pragul vesniciei, dar si juramant al dragostei statornice in curgerea vremelniciei pamantene - s-a incheiat aceasta incomparabila tragedie in umbra ghilotinei.

Come talvolta un artista, per dar prova delle proprie energie creative, cerca di proposito un soggetto esteriormente modesto invece di uno patetico e universale, così di tanto in tanto il destino cerca un eroe insignificante per dimostrare come anche da una materia scadente possa svilupparsi la più alta tensione, da un'anima debole e mal disposta una grandiosa tragedia.

Jamás llegará plenamente a saber la humanidad la desgracia que en aquel instante del destino se introdujo por la olvidada Kerkaporta, jamás llegará a saber la humanidad todo lo que se le privó al mundo del espíritu en los saqueos de Roma, de Alejandría y de Bizancio.

Zweig's golden age of security was shattered forever by the outbreak of the First World War which he viewed, with rather one-dimensional oversimplification, as "a war of brothers brought about by clumsy diplomats and brutal munitions-manufacturers.

No one had seen anything of Urk since he had gone galloping out into the night carrying Meriam, the hired girl. It was generally assumed that he had drowned her and then himself. Who cared, anyway?

factory had at its disposal 30,000 Jews, political prisoners

when she got the call, poor girl.

the Sioux did not rejoice. Too many of their own had been lost that day. When

Nietzsche envisions the tragic man or woman, living life to the fullest, as one who builds sandcastles passionately, all the time aware of the coming tide. The ephemeral, illusory nature of all form does not detract from the surrender to the passion of the work; it enhances and enriches it.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.