Quotes About Tragedy

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

My mother had lots and lots of children who didnt survive.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I'm sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?