Quotes About Tragedy

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory has been the greatest source of joy and comfort. The gift of a son is pretty amazing as well.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

One of the things that struck me when I was a kid and I was learning about Pompeii was these figures that were frozen in the moments of their death. It is very powerful imagery, and it is very emotional and very evocative.

We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith. This is the one most closely associated with the 1927 flood,

That's what Jesse had never understood: she didn't even want to. She'd known, too, for the first time, that her mother had been lucky to die in childbirth, still one with the baby dying within her.

Another woman, "whose face no one had ever seen outside the door of her house and who had never walked during the day in the city,"2 had torn off her headscarf, the better to reproach the king. Yusuf, in his fury, had ordered her daughter and granddaughter killed before her, their blood poured down her throat, and then her own head to be sent flying.

Het potsierlijk gemorste lopend voedsel, de drinkbeker voor kleuters in de handen van een huilende negentigjarige, de onbehandelbare pijnen, de stoma's, de urinezakjes hangend aan een kapstok naast het bed dat je niet meer verlaat, de nooit eindigende tragikomedie van de ontlasting. Dat ganse bittere repertoire van kots en kak.

I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

Once I had a dog that died of lead poisoning . . . I shot him in the head.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.