Quotes About Tragedy

By early 1942, the Nazis had wreaked destruction in the USSR that went well beyond the understanding of most people in the West. They killed millions of Soviets, looted everything from machines in factories to the gold from the mouths of the dead, and destroyed all that they could not cart away.

The flights were hijacked, the planes crashed into buildings, 2,977 people died, and the nineties collapsed with the skyscrapers.

Sid and Nancy's relationship forever illustrates the worst part of being in love with anyone, which is that people in love can't be reasoned with.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

You always kill the one you love.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.

You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. Mozart and his uremia. Paul Klee and the scleroderma that shrank his joints and muscles to death. Frida Kahlo and the spina bifida that covered her legs with bleeding sores. Lord Byron and his clubfoot. The Brontë sisters and their tuberculosis. Mark Rothko and his suicide. Flannery O'Connor and her lupus. Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

La historia no es más que una sucesión de monstruos o de víctimas. O de testigos.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

I'm the dick that killed Cassie Lynn Wright.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution'' Tyler whispered, ''toward tragedy and dissolution

The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people's sad, true disasters. We write in order to repeat the past.

Even after you're dead it hurts just as bad when your heart swells up, stretched bigger and bigger like an aneurysm of tears getting ready to boom.

What you have to know is that Marla is still alive. Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.

Komik olabilir ama en trajik yang?n bile asl?nda süregelen kimyasal bir tepkimedir. Jan Dark'?n oksidasyonudur.

Her body continued to be the black box of a jetliner that had crashed with no survivors.

You're down man, and man, oh man, it hurts. Still it isn't anything tragic until Mom and Dad run over. Oh, you poor, brave thing. Only then do you cry.

I'd like to see more stand-up routines venture into depicting tragedy. It's conventional to give people a humorous cathartic release; now I'd love to hear stand-up tragedy that would reduce the audience to exhausted tears.

El desastre es una parte natural de mi evolución hacia la tragedia y la disolución