Quotes About Tragedy

The saddest three words in the English language: "Rest in peace."

Drunk driving is a killer disease.

Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)

You said, 'Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.

Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God. M. Barin, poet

Freedom in its existential struggle, greater than the tragedy of fear.

War kills everybody, including the ones who live.

Wir sind alle ein bisschen gestorben in diesem Krieg, glaube ich. Wie meine Mutter immer gesagt hat. Krieg tötet alle, auch die, die ihn überleben.

A beautiful woman is a car crash

On every side were stretched the bodies of men and animals apparently lifeless.

The next star shell revealed a horrific panorama: The snow was smeared with blood. Twisted corpses and shorn body parts had been flung in all directions.

quote Euripides: "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.")

S?uchaj, moje dziecko. Czy ty wiesz, czym by? chleb w getcie? Bo jak nie wiesz, to nigdy nie zrozumiesz, dlaczego tysi?ce ludzi mog?o dobrowolnie przyj?? i z chlebem jecha? do Treblinki. Nikt przecie? tego dotychczas nie zrozumia?.

I know, you were much closer to the painter than any of us. In spite of that, your lips, too, will want to curl up into a smile. There are levels of tragedy whose mind-numbing properties can only be checked by laughter, and what story does not contain an inkling of the grotesque? When we Germans will have learnt to laugh like the Gauls, we will truly be the rulers of this earth; even more so than before, one might add." "John Hamilton Llewellyn's End

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

La vieja conocía el futuro porque conocía el pasado, y su familiaridad con las cosas de la vida le permitían comprender y, por lo tanto, aceptar sin rencor, la eterna tragedia de la naturaleza: es menester que la carne perezca para que la carne pueda vivir.

Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the pitiless war goes on, without quarter or armistice - a nationalism of species against species.

The tragedy of man is that he has developed an intelligence eager to uncover mysteries, but not strong enough to penetrate them.

6. Yüzy?l, tarihte e?ine az rastlan?r bir felaket dönemiydi. 513 Y?l?nda Vezüv de dahil volkan patlamalar?; 526 y?l?nda 200 binden fazla insan öldüren Antakya depremi, Konstantinopol depremi ve di?erleri; k?tl?klar ve bunu takip eden vebalar; Asya, Orta Do?u ve Avrupa'ya 60 y?ldan uzun bir süre korku ve y?k?m getirdi.

Happy You know my girlfriend is dead. She fell off a cliff and died on impact.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

There is no glory in war—only good men dying terrible deaths.