Quotes About Tragedy

The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

An anniversary is a celebration of the triumph and tragedy of love.

Your job won't take care of you when you'll be sailing through loneliness or going though a tragedy in life. Your friends will. Make good friends and stay in touch.

There is beauty in tragedy. And we all believed!

I die a Queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpepper

No parent should have to bury their child.

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." Statistics stay silent in us.

Diagoras asked, "Where were the pictures of those who prayed, then drowned?" The drowned worshippers, being dead, would have a lot of trouble advertising their experiences from the bottom of the sea.

Scorn of the abstract: favoring contextualized thinking over more abstract, though more relevant, matters. "The death of one child is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal and sermonizing proverb, the harder it is to implement.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

We humans scorn what is not concrete. We are more easily swayed by a crying baby than by thousands of people dying elsewhere that do not make it into our dining room. The one case is a tragedy, the other a statistic.

An American ship carrying mustard gas off Bari in Italy was bombed by the Germans 1942. It helped develop chemotherapy owing to the effect of the gas on the condition of the soldiers who had liquid cancers (eradication of white blood cells). But

Como se supone que dijo Stalin (que algo sabía sobre la mortalidad): «Una muerte es una tragedia; un millón de muertes, una estadística». La estadística permanece callada en nuestro interior.

And Ippolito too, in his own way, had been a real person, even though he had come to that insect-like end.

Como somos infelices, queremos ver a nuestro alrededor, por todas partes, escenas trágicas, sangrientas y solemnes, y ya no sabemos celebrar la fragilidad, la delicadeza y la medida.

Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.

the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

Una strana fatalità sembra costringere ogni essere umano ad aggirarsi, simile ad un fantasma, nei luoghi dove qualche grave avvenimento ha lasciato un profondo solco nella vita di lui; e codesta fatalità è tanto più inesorabile, quanto più quel solco sia di tristezza e di dolore.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.