Quotes About Tragedy

But if Viraf had been unable to light her funeral pyre, she had done it for him. She had climbed on top of the neatly arranged pile of wood and lay down; she had lit the match that brought alive the flames that had devoured her. With her words she had birthed a fire that had scorched all of them. The fire had consumed her, turning her future and her dreams to ash;

a dozen funeral pyres were ablaze at the same time. Black smoke the color of despair rose from those pyres.

Arriva il momento quando l'astuzia e la spiritosaggine sono spazzate via. Si trema all'idea che si sarà rimpinzati di finali tristi fino a farceli uscire dalle orecchie. Quelli che la gente considera finali lieti non sono, naturalmente, finali: i finali sono per definizione tristi.

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.

Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fired fifteen shots at the staff, hitting nobody.

The television was on Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fired fifteen shots at the staff, hitting nobody.

If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever. And so when I do any kind of story with somebody who's in the same position as my daughter was, there's no question that something comes out of me and embraces that story in a way that only a father who lost a child could.

There are not many things that can happen much worse to a family than having a member taken and not knowing what happened to them.

'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.

The Holocaust is - there's nothing comparable to it.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words 'Never Forget' become irksome eventually.

Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander.

'Pompeii' is kind of a lifelong obsession for me.

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

It was better than floods of misery that a son of her flesh had killed the sons of other mothers. That burned in her heart like the pain which flared in the arthritis of her knees. Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics. Bess

but I am infinitely more sorrowful about the two victims' families than the fact Mr. Gilmore is no longer alive.

Because our tragedy is that we diverge as countrymen further and further away from one another, like a space ship broken apart in flight which now drifts mournfully in isolated orbits, satellites to each other, planets none, communications faint.

It would seem that the story is ended, instead of begun; that the close of a tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest; but, to the more curious reader it shall be some slight instruction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous web of circumstances.

El amor es trágico; añado que la amistad es una respuesta a la tragedia.

La ilusión de una morada en el tiempo es el deseo de hombres y mujeres. La esperanza y el instante de la felicidad, únicos asideros para vivir esta errancia sin fin. Y la cultura, para muchos, la salvación de toda tragedia: vivir en cualesquiera de los géneros teatrales, pero no vivir muerto.

77 millones de chinos murieron por causas no naturales a consecuencia de las guerras o de los asesinatos de masas por motivos políticos entre las décadas de 1920 y 1980, y la inmensa mayoría de ellos murieron a manos de compatriotas suyos.1