Quotes About Tragedy

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

When he "stood up against this southern way of life," he had to stand alone; the other members of the union fled. He knew the exultation of his stand: "That made me merry in a way. I done what was right . . . "But he also knew its tragedy: "When they shot me it didn't shake me, when they arrested me it didn't shake me. But it shook me to see my friends was but few.

But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.

Who's to say? But he didn't deserve to die.

If I look into the wings, I can see Mom standing like a statue, Medea or Lady Macbeth, one of those tragic horrors, her face zombified by the steely reflected light from my funeral pyre.

He did not live to see the opening of Walt Disney World in Florida in 1971.

Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander, Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.

What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons.

There breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men's are, dead.

And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head.

We had come to see blackguards; but these men were something worse. There is a comic side, more or less appreciable, in all blackguardism — here there was nothing but tragedy — mute, weird tragedy. The quiet in the room was horrible.

Daha az duygusal olan kad?nlar?n fark?na bile varmayaca?? birçok önemsiz ayr?nt? onun duyarl? ruhu için ?st?rap kayna?? oluyordu. Hani mutsuz olmak için doÄŸmuÅŸ insanlar vard?r ya; iÅŸte o zavall? onlardan biriydi.

This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.

The tragedy of life is that it gives us wisdom only when it has stolen youth. Si jeunesse savait, et vieillesse pouvait!—"If youth knew how, and old age could!

the Alexandrian Library was a tragedy of some moment, for it was believed to contain the complete published works of Æschylus, Sophocles, Polybius, Livy, Tacitus, and a hundred others, who have come down to us in mangled form; full texts of the pre-Socratic philosophers, who survive only in snatches; and thousands of volumes of Greek, Egyptian, and Roman history, science, literature, and philosophy.

Ars longa, vita brevis—art is long and time is fleeting: this is the tragedy of every great soul.

The tragedy of life is that it gives us wisdom only when it has stolen youth.

Even though it consumes us in its service and overwhelms us with tragedy, even though it breaks us down with separations, let it be first. How can it matter what price we pay for love?

Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was

45 But above all, the function of art is catharsis, purification: emotions accumulated in us under the pressure of social restraints, and liable to sudden issue in unsocial and destructive action, are touched off and sluiced away in the harmless form of theatrical excitement; so tragedy, "through pity and fear, effects the proper purgation of these emotions.

That is the way a white man remembers a battle. So many soldiers here, so many there. Such a captain here. Such a lieutenant there. This colonel in one place. That major in another. The horses precisely here, the cannon exactly there. But not an Indian. An Indian remembers where his mother fell bayoneted, or his little brother had his skull smashed, or his big sister cried for mercy and was shot in the mouth.

Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport was one of only three very special airports named for men who died in a plane crash.

unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning