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Quotes About Tragedy

White trash had a way of finding their graves. Along with wife beating and beer sucking, dying was probably their only core competency.
~ J.R. Ward
La tragedia, como el amor, hace que la gente se vuelva ciega.
~ J.R. Ward
Tragedy was but a moment. Responsibility for it was forever.
~ J.R. Ward
Humans + alcohol x urge to kill=body count. Not what he or his business interests needed.
~ J.R. Ward
Tragedy, like love, makes people blind," he said, as if he could read her regrets.
~ J.R. Ward
If working around the King had taught her anything, it was that no matter what class you were in, tragedy didn't discriminate, justice could always be served, and nobody got out of this life alive.
~ J.R. Ward
Passare del tempo con te è come guardare la vernice che si asciuga.» La voce di Lassiter riecheggiò fino alle stalattiti appese all'alta volta della Tomba. «Senza neanche che la casa migliori. Il che è una tragedia, visto com'è questo posto. Voi ragazzi avete sempre un debole per le tinte fosche? Mai sentito parlare dell'Ikea?» «Noi siamo vampiri», disse Tohr. «Mica fatine.»
~ J.R. Ward
They massacred the servants before killing my parents. I saw it all through a knothole in the wood. As I said, my eyes were better back then.
~ J.R. Ward
They had always been alike, in tune, of one mind. Tragedies, secrets, and lies, however, frayed even the closest of ties.
~ J.R. Ward
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
~ Jack Kerouac
Vinny's was the scene of suicide hookies.
~ Jack Kerouac
There was something virile in her attitude toward tragedy, as though she were defying God to knock off the chip He Himself had placed on her shoulder.
~ Jack Kerouac
Curvas lindas em forma de pêra moldam a pele de seu rosto, que tem pestanas compridas e tristes, e uma resignação de Virgem Maria, e uma compleição cor de café e textura de pêssego e olhos de um mistério impressionante com uma falta de expressão de profundidade rasteira, meio desdém meio um lamento de dor pesaroso.
~ Jack Kerouac
I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.
~ Anand Gopal
I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.
~ Bradley Walsh
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
~ Jim Sensenbrenner
When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.
~ Diana Silvers
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
~ Jack Dee
I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'
~ Gilbert Gottfried
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
~ Abe Lemons
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
~ Arthur Miller
I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.
~ Andy Dick
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
~ Elizabeth Edwards