Quotes About Tragedy

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.