Quotes About Tragedy

I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

I really miss Diana. I loved her so much.

Even in Hollywood, there are personal descents that evoke only sad shakes of the head, especially where there's sheer, unassailable talent in the mix.

I lost my mom when I was young.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

An estimated 60,000 out of the 80,000 Herero were in fact killed before the general was recalled to Berlin.122

Through a misunderstanding one native visitor was shot on board one of the ships, and a dozen others were shot ashore, while the Europeans got off with the loss of one tablecloth and of a few hats which were stolen while they had them on their heads.

What we should lament is not the loss of houses or of land, but the loss of men's lives. Men come first; the rest is the fruit of their labour.

150 miles outside Baghdad and began shooting children. By his own account, he 'saw that children were in the room kneeling down. I

Lee Strunk made a funny ghost sound, a kind of moaning, yet very happy, and right then, when Strunk made that high happy moaning sound, when he went Ahhooooo, right then Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing. He lay with his mouth open. The teeth were broken. There was a swollen black bruise under his left eye. The cheekbone was gone. Oh shit, Rat Kiley said, the guy's dead. The guy's dead, he kept saying, which seemed profound - the guy's dead. I mean really.

They told stories about Ted Lavender's supply of tranquilizers, how the poor guy didn't feel a thing, how incredibly tranquil he was. There's a moral here, said Mitchell Sanders. They were waiting for Lavender's chopper, smoking the dead man's dope. The moral's pretty obvious, Sanders said, and winked. Stay away from drugs. No joke, they'll ruin your day every time. Cute, said Henry Dobbins. Mind blower, get it? Talk about wiggy. Nothing left, just blood and brains. They made themselves laugh.