Quotes About Tragedy

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There are some stunning visual moments in 'Arrival' that are out of this world, but it's all on the earth, and it's about an academic, a woman that is dealing with a personal tragedy, but there's a circular view of time that makes things more complicated.

When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

I have a lot of security - I lost my mother to the Taliban because of a lack of security - and that explains partly why I can be so vocal.

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.

When I was a child, women spoke to me of how all they had was their memories, how their husbands went to war and never came back, so many tragedies. That chorus of voices filled my consciousness. It was part of life itself.

I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.

As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.

Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family and then seven years knowing that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we reunited... in the most dramatic, American way possible. Live, on television.

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.

Sept. 11 was a shock to the whole world.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

I wasn't angry the night I shot him.

Altamont... I remember all of that. That was an awful day.

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

My father was murdered when I was 12 years old. It was just me and my mother and my brother at the time. My brother was a little bit older than me and he left, so it was just me and my mom for a bit in Baltimore.

I had lost my mother during 'Boond Jo Ban Gaye Moti.'