Quotes About Tragedy

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

When I hear of the destruction of a species ... I just feel as if all the the works of some great writer had perished.

Even in situations which appeared to end tragically, in loss and death, much fruit will come from them.

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

To be knav'd out of our graves, to have our skulls made drinking-bowls, and our bones turned into pipes, to delight and sport our enemies, are tragical abominations escaped in burning burials.

Despairing Dido, queen of ancient Carthage, slain by her own hand as her magnificent lover Aeneas lifts anchor and sails away forever: this is one of the most haunting and permanent images of the classical world.

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

The tragedy of life is not so much what we suffer but what we miss.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

I live in New York. I lost some 150 friends, neighbors and constituents on Sept. 11.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.

Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget those who perished and the lessons learned on Sept. 11, 2001.

We can never forget the Gujarat communal riots.

New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I still have dreams about Hillsborough. Well, nightmares, anyway.

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.