Quotes About Tragedy

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.

Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

God's power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

I feel my skin growing warm. But it isn't the fact that Gussy told Effie about Eva, about everything that happened, but rather that someone would see beauty in the story. The idea that someone could hear about what happened all those years ago and not be disgusted, horrified, by all the tragedies that followed, that someone could find a sliver of the goodness, the beauty, I cling to is almost more than I can handle.

But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers...

Jenghiz Khan and his lieutenants slaughtered more than 18,500,000 human beings.

The cities of Russia and Poland were burned, their inhabitants tortured and massacred, with the consequence that progress was retarded for centuries. Almost

Lying in a position of classic repose, Winnifred had never been more beautiful. Her silvery gold hair cascaded over the oaken door upon which she lay. A bright waterfall, it pooled on the deep green felt of the billiard table where the door rested. Her sightless blue eyes stared up at the plastered ceiling, her face a study in serenity and peace. I had never seen violent death leave a corpse so lovely.

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.