Quotes About Tragedy

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

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.