Quotes About Tragedy

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

Some people's self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!

Isn't that the tragic thing about women? That we live on long after our passions have died?

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

I didn't know anything about the Lusitania. I started reading because I had nothing else in my plate. And as soon as I start reading, I thought now this is interesting, you know, the hows of what happened, the actual - the actual sinking of the ship.

Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

I will never forget standing with fellow members of Congress on the steps of the Capitol to sing 'God Bless America' on the night of 9/11.

Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a man who does. . . . Macbeth is the only one of Shakespeare's plays in which the villain and the hero are the same character.

By what right did we lure children to their deaths, caught by a glint of light on metal, a trumpery banner?