Quotes About Tragedy

Le dernier acte est sanglant, quelque belle soit la comédie en tout le reste.

Cause of death, multiple wounds in upper right chest as well as severing of right arm, all leading to exsanguination." "He bled out," Mac said quickly as Roland began to open his mouth.

Several passengers also mentioned "6MWE." Smith did not know what they were talking about. He was horrified to learn, listening as some passengers explained and discussed openly that it meant "6 million weren't enough," a reference to the 6 million Jews exterminated in Nazi concentration camps.

In Vietnam today there is a My Lai Museum. Hersh visited it in early 2015 for The New Yorker and noted the names and ages of the victims listed on a marble plaque. The count of the dead is no longer in dispute: a total of 504 people from 247 families; 24 families lost everyone—three generations, no survivors. Included in the 504 were 60 elderly men, and 282 women (17 of whom were pregnant). A total of 173 children were killed; 53 were infants.

Todo trauma nos conmociona y nos desvía, encaminándonos a una tragedia. Sin embargo, la representación del acontecimiento nos da la posibilidad de convertir ese trauma en el eje de nuestra historia, en una especie de negro lucero del alba que nos indica la dirección.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organic life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence.

Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, driven out of their minds by the horrors of the journey, abandoned their children, shook the corn out of their sacks onto the ground, and turned back. A quick death, they had decided, was preferable to a slow death by starvation. Better to fall into the clutches of the enemy than to be torn to pieces by some beast in the forest.

Dela govore mnogim svojim elementima: temama, situacijama, sižeima, junacima. Ali, više od svega, ona govore umetnoš?u koja je u njima prisutna. Prisustvo umetnosti na stranicama Zlo?ina i kazne mnogo je potresnije od samog Raskoljnikovljevog zlo?ina.

One day Larisa Fyodorovna left the house and did not come back again. Evidently she was arrested on the street in those days or died or vanished no one knew where, forgotten under some nameless number on subsequently lost lists, in one of the countless general or women's concentration camps in the north.

Throughout the long four years of the Civil War, more Americans will die than in any other war in the nation's history—in fact, more Americans will die in the Civil War than in every other war combined from the American Revolution through the Korean War, including both World Wars. On average, nearly 3,500 lives are lost every week

you should learn that life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.

As a sad, grey dawn broke over the hillside he came upon a ruined cottage [named Broken-Heart Farm] which did not so much seem to have broken its heart, as its neck.

di interi giorni, non serbo che il ricordo di un'irritata frenesia. Avevo perso ogni senso, ogni rispetto; credevo la mia vita una tragedia mal recitata e perciò avevo urgenza di dimenticare.

And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but didn't have a chance to grow.

Even in the wake of tragedy, we could not have felt more amazed had we been visited by an angel that Christmas morning. When the angel met the shepherds in Bethlehem, the shepherds were sore afraid. When I was a child, that phrase had always seemed odd to me...but now that I have thought more deeply about these words of scripture, it seems to me that the angels must have been more like our Christmas weasel: glorious in purity, strength, and holy perfection.

Hegel, the great eighteenth-century German philosopher, maintained that the essence of tragedy derives not from one character being right and the other being wrong, or from the conflict of good versus evil, but from a conflict in which both characters are right, and thus the tragedy is one of right against right, being carried to its logical conclusion.

I borrow the stilts of an old tragedy.

historians will say 'We have a few documents to show how the common people lived at this time. Records lead us to believe that a majority were killed. But there were glorious men.

There are a few times when the songs that are written, the poems that are written, the plays that are written, come alive. By accident you fall onto a stage-set put aside for a tragedy for the lesser gods, and you utter words that were in the script written in the leaves and in the grass for some heroic cast.

She had just smiled and said what a merciful thing it was for him he had died, because if he had lived he would have been crippled and an invalid for life, and he couldn't have stood that, he would rather have died than had that happen.

What the hell is tragedy? I am.

I remembered a worrisome course in the Victorian novel where woman after woman died, palely and nobly, in torrents of blood, after a difficult childbirth.