Quotes About Tragedy

What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.

Joy turns tears into laughter.Hope turns mourning into gladness.Wisdom turns tragedy into fortune.Faith turns defeat into triumph.Love turns enmity into friendship.

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.

I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.

The gang culture - tragically - has for some young people become the only source of stability in their lives.

I saw a lot of children who were in the latest stages of malaria. Those kids died very quickly.

In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

Marikana should not have happened. We are all to blame, and there are many stakeholders that should take the blame. But taking the blame should mean that we should make sure it never, ever, happens again.

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.