Quotes About Tragedy

I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.

The fetus had not been harmed at all by the numerous stab wounds the mother received. Noguchi thought that the fetus probably lived for about fifteen to twenty minutes after its mother's death before it, too, had died.

Only 768 people—passengers and crew—had survived; four of those died of their injuries in the next months. Some 1,198 had perished, including 128 Americans. Over 800 of Lusitania's victims were never recovered.(

Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such frame: some of the emotion, the vulnerability, the empathy that makes us human, is lost every time the shutter is released.

Around forty children die every year after they're forgotten in a car

To recognize what is absurd and to accept it need not dim the eye for the tragic side of existence; quite on the contrary, in the end it may perhaps help in gaining a more tolerant view of the world.

plenty of decent people whose lives had been shattered by random events.

Shakespearean tragedy is neither ancient history nor fairy tale. Perhaps to express this is the most important thing. In which period does the action of the play take place? It is in that past which can become the future.

it was A. Petrosyants who in a press conference in Moscow on 6 May 1986, commenting on the Chernobyl tragedy, uttered these words, which astounded many: "Science requires sacrifices.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

All geniuses die young.

Perché tra amore e morte non ci sono che due lettere di differenza.

Galones de sangre derramada para que unos spring breakers en Wisconsin o en Nebraska se dieran pasones de cocaína y se pusieran turulatos con la mota. Risa y risa los pinches escuincles gringos y de este lado puro valle de lágrimas. Deberían darles una escoba y un recogedor para que vinieran a levantar el tiradero de cadáveres.

De los demás maraqueados durante el convivio, nada. Nadita. Humo, fantasmas. Unas decenas más a las listas de los desaparecidos anónimos. Ni una mención a la masacre en el ejido La Providencia. Morirse en Narcolandia representaba un one way ticket a la Dimensión Desconocida.

What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? A moment of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost. That's what I am.

Y ahí estaba Edith, dorada y radiante como el sol. Romeo había dicho lo mismo de Julieta; ese amor había tenido un destino funesto, pero para ellos…

La mosca que debía estar muerta y el perro que debía estar muerto en la casa que debía estar muerta y la novia que moriría pronto.

Mercedes stepped back to her brother's side, the baby in her arms while Vidal stared at the watch's shattered face, its hands counting away his last moments as meticulously, as it had counted away all the years since his father's death.

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy

AN oracle had informed King Acrisius of Argos that his grandson would deprive him of his throne and his life. Because of this he had his daughter Danae and Perseus, her child by Zeus, shut in a chest and cast into the sea.

I am Madame Bovary.

Los imitadores olvidan el ser o no ser del trágico eminente, y al hacerlo caen en ese abismo sin fondo de que nos habla el creador de Hamlet: ¡Palabras, palabras, palabras!

Christine Blacklaw paled. She knew he was right. Loch Merse and its surrounding area was a terrible death trap, human beings the bait, the crustaceans lurked nearby, waiting to move in for one of the most terrible slaughters in the history of Mankind.

There was, however, a real "Honey the cat." Honey was one of two cats and a parrot living in the building on the day it was demolished, whose owners were not allowed to retrieve them. Neither the cats nor the parrot were ever seen again.