Quotes About Tragedy

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together.Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225)

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.

Wouldn't it be surprising if a 911 caller actually did begin to describe the tragedy in alarming detail? And dwell on the details, swooning in their splendor?

Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him

Kun katson nyt Challengerin miehistön kuvaa, en näe seitsemää hymyilijää, kaunista Judy Resnickiä enkä oikeastaan edes pienoismallia sinänsä. Näen vain piilotetut rakastavaiset, joiden kohtalot ovat kietoutuneet toisiinsa kuin heidän vartalonsa ja jotka odottavat kiihkeästi vapautuvansa painovoimasta, joka on aina pitänyt heidät maassa.

explorers invariably give their names to the places that haunt or kill them.

The details made no difference either way to Bosch, because he considered her death a murder. It was a nine-year-old murder, and whoever had taken Daisy had also taken Elizabeth. Never mind that the killer had never met or even seen Elizabeth. He took everything that mattered away from her. He had killed her just as plainly as he had killed her daughter. Two for the price of one.

story about how a sixteen-year-old kid becomes a stone-cold killer. Hell, getting an innocent

I crawled up the embankment to Earl. I knew right away that he was dead.

Elena rushed forward, screaming, and the lizards fled into the darkness. But long before she reached the bassinet, she could see what had happened to the infant's face, and she knew the child must be dead. The lizards scattered into the rainy night, chirping and squealing, leaving behind only bloody three-toed tracks, like birds.

Would you just check him? I'm pretty sure he's dead." "How do you know?" "He jumped from the twelfth floor. Would you just check him, make sure he's dead?

got to the concrete embankment about thirty seconds after the Ferrari hit it flat out at a hundred and sixty kilometers an hour. I guess the gas tank had exploded on impact, and the flames were jumping fifteen meters into the air.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

It's better, really, to go out in a blaze. That's why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire.

End of story. 'Happily ever after' fell on everyone like a guillotine's blade.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy.

It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realize you are, to him, an essentially fictional character, one he has invested with nearly limitless capacities for tragedy and comedy not because that is your true nature but because he, Richard, needs to live in a world peopled by extreme and commanding figures.

Buongiorno, microbo," dice a Richie. "Sto mangiando i cereali," dice lui. E ridacchia. Si potrebbe quasi dire che le lancia uno sguardo malizioso. È palesemente infatuato di lei; è comico e tragico nel suo amore disperato. La fa pensare ogni tanto a un topo che canta serenate d'amore sotto la finestra di una gigantessa.

America is so rich and fat, because it has eaten the tragedy of millions of immigrants.