Quotes About Tragedy

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

Me, personally. I do not know a soul who perished that day of 9/11. But it did then, does now, and I imagine it always will bring out the Patriot in me.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace, ' 'A Farewell to Arms, ' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

Life is an adventurous story filled with triumph and tragedy.

Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check.

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.

My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration.

Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy.

You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty.

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.