Quotes About Tragedy

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

Let's face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful forty-two-year-old woman. With half her life still ahead of her, she was deemed to be at the end of something--namely, everything society valued in her, other than her success as a mother.

When tragedy happens a real family pulls together, mine ripped apart.

HUNTER SHOT HIMSELF in the head at Owl Farm. I don't remember what time of day it was or who told me, just the old leather chair I was sitting in when I heard the news.

With Janis, there was a lot of hurt.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE hanged himself at age forty-six. I had sent one of our best new feature writers, David Lipsky, out to profile Wallace when Infinite Jest was first published in 1996.

On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:) Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed.

The greatest single epidemic in human history was the one of influenza that killed 21 million people at the end of the First World War.

the Indian population of Hispaniola declined from around 8 million, when Columbus arrived in A.D. 1492, to zero by 1535.

in the winter of 1902 a dysentery epidemic brought by a sailor on the whaling ship Active killed 51 out of the 56 Sadlermiut Eskimos, a very isolated band of people living on Southampton Island in the Canadian Arctic.

An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who's the better writer?

How many little kids were being orphaned or killed, right that minute, while I was sitting there watching TV?

When she died of lung cancer a few years later, it felt like a malicious cosmic joke. When Grandpa married Margaret the fundamentalist Christian, that was the punch line.

We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.

Their father, Polonius, was in a 'have a go' mood and joined in. He also made changes, and together they renamed it: The Tragedy of the Very Witty and Not Remotely Boring Polonius, Father of the Noble Laertes, Who Avenges His Fair Sister, Ophelia, Driven Mad by the Callous, Murderous and Outrageously Disrespectful Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "What was it like?" "With Polonius? Very . . . wordy.

He was shot dead in the old town during a bookbuy that went wrong.

se puede ser un buen escritor siendo una pésima persona..." "De todas las historias de la historia", escribió Jaime Gil de Biedma, "sin duda la más triste es la de España, porque termina mal

Los héroes sólo son héroes cuando se mueren o los matan

Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.

L'humain vous gêne aux entournures dans la famille. Il vous faut un tête-à-tête avec le destin et la mort. Et tuer votre père et coucher avec votre mère et apprendre tout cela après, avidement, mot par mot. Quel breuvage, hein, les mots qui vous condamnent ? Et comme on les boit goulûment quand on s'appelle Å'dipe, ou Antigone.

Bir katliami unutmak da katliam turunden bir seydir.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. –