Quotes About Tragedy

how does it feel that the only worthy thing you ever created came from the worst kind of loss?

De geschiedenis van de holocaust zit onder de vingerafdrukken van de moderniteit, van de maakbare maatschappij

Ik bezoek het veld waar de Royal New Foundland Regiment vrijwel compleet werd neergemaaid bij een onzinnige aanval, een geval van collectieve zelfmoord waarvan moslimfundamentalisten nog iets zouden kunnen leren.

She went in the pool," she finished for me. "Ohmigod. She was killed while tweeting. It was Twittercide!

head lulled to one side, a trickle of blood dripped down the front of her dress, and her eyes stared at the ceiling, wide and unseeing. And totally dead.

From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined?

Had anyone told me that my entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, I would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything I knew and loved was gone.

Desecrate our temple, will you? Go ahead. However, I suggest you say goodbye to your cock before you do so." Win! Not a challenge, not a challenge, not a fucking challenge. Please don't let that be a challenge. He had a feeling the woman meant what she'd said. If he whipped out Stridy Monster to relieve himself, he'd lose Stridy Monster. And there was no greater tragedy than that. Ask anyone who'd been with him. "Uh

I curse you, William of the Dark. I curse you to a life of misery and war with those you care about. A life devoid of genuine companionship. But. If ever you do fall in love...if ever the object of your affection falls in love with you in return...I curse her to lose her mind along with her heart. She will attack you, again and again, and she will not stop until you are dead.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Recall the cold Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn, Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet, Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.

Tragedy takes all under regard.

A whore who with icy shudders gives birth to a small dead child.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

All of a sudden, a great crash sounded, and even the calm, collected Peter flinched at the noise. The closet door flew open and two small children, a girl and boy, burst out into the room. They were a ghastly sight, even to Peter's cynical eyes: the little girl had no left arm, the boy had been bleeding from a great wound in his side. Peter felt a touch of sympathy for the pathetic creatures, but then he reminded himself—they were dead!

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

now let humour give Seas to mine eyes, that I may quickly weep The shipwreck of the world

In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

O Miss Bailey!Unfortunate Miss Bailey!