Quotes About Tragedy

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war?

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there

What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death

Nobody returned alive from the war.