Quotes About Tragedy

I come from the land where Anna Karenina was written. I believe in love, even if it is doomed.

That was the tragedy. Radium had been known to be harmful since 1901. Every death since was unnecessary.

Tom watched his wife from the doorway, watched as she demonstrated how she had been killed. Though he had thought himself wrung out of tears, he wept, quietly, unashamedly, as Catherine showed off the simple movement that had left her little more than a living corpse.

That was the tragedy. Radium had been known to be harmful since 1901. Every death since was unnecessary. -- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death.

fifteen-year-old from Shepherd's Bush, West London, who had poisoned himself with carbolic acid. His father had given him a 'good hiding', the paper reported, because he had been out of work for a month. The boy left a note reading 'I wish you to know the reason I did it is because I could not work', but the judge none the less ascribed his death to his consumption of 'literary offal'.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Sadako! Listen! Can you hear your friends' strong voices for peace? As the mother of a child who passed away when she was only twelve and a half years old, I'd like to appeal to mothers not only in Japan but all over the world that I don't want such a horrible thing to happen again. So many children are looking for peace.

the Rokuj? lady was much more than a passing affair, and something in the way you wrote it made me certain: you must have loved someone else, someone young, not Akio's father. And that person died, didn't he? At the front." "Yes." Mieko said the one word, and nothing more.

There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy; the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.

It is something of a tragedy for young girls of good family that they cannot carry on a love-affair in a simple, straightforward way, in secret, below their station if need be, as do their sisters of humbler origin, who can place their affections wherever they wish without risk of misdirecting a family fortune or making a 'bad match'.

I had always imagined, Westfield said, that one could either die tragically, cut short with much still to be done, or that one could die old and full of years, as the Bible has it, after having put one's house in order. I had never considered that there is a third alternative, in which one went on living and yet found no order in one's life, in which everything at the end was as confused and unfinished as it had always been.

She loved only her lover and Iphigenia in the narrowness of her cold breast.

I, Electra, fingering my garments and my face, for in hours I was changed. Now I am merely one who has killed.

La paix a été aussi mauvaise que la guerre. La paix a tué autant d'hommes que la guerre. La paix es aussi mauvaise… aussi mauvaise…

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming.

On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.

You have had tragedy, yes, but you have had many good friends as well. "Have I?" "Yes, Marx and Sadie. They loved you." "Is two considered many?" Sam asked. "It depends on how good the friendships are," Dong Hyun said.

And eventually, Sadie would be a stranger. And this would be a disaster for Sam. A tragedy. He would know that if he hadn't been the person he was, terrified and cowardly and petty and insecure and sexually panicked and broken, Sadie might have been his.

Samson, you are a lucky boy,' Don Hyun said to Sam in a perfectly clear voice. 'You have had tragedy, yes, but you have had many good friends as well.

EMILY MARKS DAEDALUS 1875-1909 SHE HATH DIED OF DYSENTERY

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy.

Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes. Horns, flaccid and come too late. Metal crumpling like tissue. The body was not in pain but only because the body was gone, elsewhere. Yes, Daniel thinks just after impact but before death, like that. The passage hadn't been as bad as he had thought.