Quotes About Tragedy

In any war, people will pay the price.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

It is not a war. It is murder.

It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

War will make corpses of us all.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

A coaster gives you hope. You can pretty much ride a good one through the worst tragedy life throws at you. You can even ride it through somebody dying, I guess.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

No, Wright wouldn't like the bird—a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.

Then Jesus healed the man. I think the important thing here is that we can't always pin down reasons for tragedy. Life is tough—you know that. But every hard moment can be met by God, used by God. That's the glory of it. We can ask why, but we may never find the answer. But we will find God if we turn to Him. In that surrender, He'll turn the tragedy into something for His glory and your eternal good, according to His will.

Trouble always feels personal. But it doesn't mean that God doesn't care about you. That He's out to get you. In fact, the opposite is true. God deliberately put Himself in the way of the ultimate tragedy to save you. That's what grace is...and frankly, He uses trouble to show you Himself.

And what does war even accomplish? How does one country win over another by simply killing its people? None of it makes any sense.

The stumbling stones document what larger memorials cannot show: that the terror began not in far-off Poland, but in the heart of a city full of clubs and cafés, spaces where you can still buy a lottery ticket or go to the dentist. Each four-inch square recalls an ordinary human being, in the midst of her life, who was deported and murdered with little notice and no protest from the other ordinary human beings who surrounded her every day. The terror was here.

In total, four hundred thousand books in Central Library were destroyed in the fire. An additional seven hundred thousand were badly damaged by either smoke or water or, in many cases, both. The number of books destroyed or spoiled was equal to the entirety of fifteen typical branch libraries. It was the greatest loss to any public library in the history of the United States.