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Quotes About Tragedy

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there
~ Patricia A. McKillip
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.
~ Philip Roth
I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.
~ Pierre Salinger
I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.
~ Randy Newman
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
~ Raymond Chandler
Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man.
~ Rob Brydon
The lot of man-to suffer and die.
~ Homer
The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence.
~ Ilona Andrews
It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.
~ Jack Newfield
A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way." "Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.
~ John Dryden
This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.
~ John Steinbeck
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
~ John Webster
My mom died when I was 8.
~ Lisa Guerrero
My mom shot and killed her last husband. Yeah, my dad used to say "Hey, dodged that bullet. Ha ha."
~ Christopher Titus
He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.
~ Eoin Colfer, Airman
It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.
~ Robin Lim
We can lose money, But the loss of human life is loss forever.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
~ Dwight Yoakam
... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.
~ Charles Bukowski
A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!
~ Marie Corelli
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
~ Marie Antoinette