Quotes About Tragedy

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Schopenhauer was right. It's all that blind will to prolong the human tragedy.

A slit throat cannot be sewn together again.

Hay grandeza y dignidad en la tragedia, por eso es fuente de inspiración, pero no quiero tragedia, por inmortal que sea, quiero una dicha sin bulla, íntima y muy discreta, para no provocar los celos de los dioses, siempre tan vengativos...

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

And along the streets the blood of the children flowed simply, like the blood of children…Come and see the blood in the streets, come and see the blood in the streets.

La objetivación de la mujer es tan predominante que no la percibimos y en la juventud nos esclaviza. El feminismo no nos ha salvado de esa esclavitud. Solo nos libramos con la edad, cuando nos convertimos en seres invisibles y ya no somos objeto de deseo, o cuando alguna tragedia nos sacude hasta los huesos y nos confronta con lo fundamental de la existencia.

murieron cerca de quince mil personas en esos campos franceses de hambre, inanición, maltrato y enfermedades.

The day we arrived in Auschwitz, there were so many people to be burned that the four crematoriums couldn't handle the task. So the Germans built big open fires to throw the children in.

One man carried his dead son. He thought the boy was still alive. The father was covered with his son's blood, and as he ran he kept saying, I will get you to the hospital, my boy, everything will be fine. Perhaps it was necessary that he cling to false hopes, since they kept him running from harm.

One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.

I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on 'Ground Zero' is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.