Quotes About Tragedy

Celia died on a crystal clear Sunday morning in June. Michael Tolland felt like a ship torn from its moorings and thrown adrift in a raging sea, his compass smashed. For weeks he spun out of control. Friends tried to help, but his pride could not bear their pity. You have a choice

que me preocupa es que Leonardo Vetra prácticamente demostró la existencia de Dios, y sin embargo usted ha hecho que lo asesinen!

I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never thought it would be this small, did you?

When Beth was killed, she was reading. It was around four on a Thursday afternoon, school was done and she was on her way to pick up Hazel at day care, hurrying down the sidewalk toward the bus stop. Walking and reading, which he always warned her about, her feet moving automatically beneath her as she flipped through a stack of quizzes that her students had taken in preparation for their sixth grade proficiency test. What

Tragedy is very different for the warrior and for the fool.

Stand as I did after throwing the switch, a murderer, a betrayer, but still proud, feet firmly planted on Hyperion's shifting sand, head held high, fist raised against the sky, crying "A plague on both your houses!

Life is brutal that way... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Life is brutal that way Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Goodsir rolled the corpse over while Fitzjames removed his jacket and beat out the flames rising from the dead man's face and hair. Harry Goodsir felt as if he were watching all this from a great distance. The professional part of his mind noticed with cool detachment that the furnace, as poorly banked as the low coal flames had been, had melted the man's eyes, burned away his nose and ears, and turned his face into the texture of an overbaked, bubbling raspberry flan.

Black man invented plasma. Fellow named Charles Drew. I read somewhere that he bled to death after a car accident in the nineteen fifties because some cracker North Carolina hospital didn't have any 'Negro blood' in the fridge and refused to give him 'white blood.

Life is brutal that way... the loss of irrevocable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

La vida es una comedia para quienes piensan y una tragedia para quienes sienten. Horace Walpole

For murder victims under twelve, says a report, 57 percent of the murderers are

"King David was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: 'O my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom: my son, my son!'"

Kurt Vonnegut

The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.