Quotes About Tragedy

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. At

For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Nancy was a very special person, too beautiful for this world. I feel so privileged to have loved her and been loved by her.

What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle.

When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.

I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previouslydied in a car accident.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.