Quotes About Tragedy

Biggest tragedy of life is when God ask us to glorify Him for our sakes but we choose to glorify self for satan's good.

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.

The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.

Saige, Mother is . . ." I briefly close my eyes and swallow, clearing my mouth from saliva. "Mother is dead.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

Artists are born under Saturn and heroes must die young

I came to know and like some Germans later on. But I hated the enemy then for what they tried to do to Johnnie Cock and what they did to Johnnie Dewar, our squadron leader, later in the battle. He parachuted out, but when we found his body, it was riddled with bullets. Some of our people say what wonderful men the German pilots were personally. But I still feel that men who could shoot boys in parachutes are not people I want to know.14

because although she is very pretty, she is also very dead, and dead trumps pretty much everything.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

All were dissected or decapitated or sexually assaulted after death. He cut leg meat from two of his victims into a macaroni casserole he prepared and ate. Kemper bludgeoned his mother with a hammer as she slept. He sawed off her head, had sex with her corpse, and carved out her larynx and shoved it down the garbage disposal.

Shanna was the first to go. And by "go" I mean die. And by "die" I mean get killed.

Just like my mom, Grandma had died the day she gave birth. It was like a curse in our family. "Because

She didn't really die. Just got skewered for laughs, left for dead in some steaming pile of gore with her current boy toy.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

as is most always the case with any disaster, it is those who can least afford to lose who lose the most.