Quotes About Tragedy

La mort, ce sombre fantôme, est assise sur son bras vigoureux : ce bras se lève, retombe, et alors les hommes meurent.

Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope

O, I am fortune's fool!

He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and evenly, and this, he knew, was for him a minor sort of tragedy.

And so you see, dear reader, the death of my friend Sophie forced me to realize that the whole universe is one big concentration camp run by God -- the biggest Nazi of them all! So slavery in Virginia wasn't all that bad. And it was really God's fault anyway. Pretty good tragic insight there. Think I'll crank some Bellamy Brothers and get loaded!

Is it best to know about a child's death, even one so horrible, or to know that the child lives but that you will never, never see him again?

No victory, no conquest justified a single death, a man starved, frozen, lacerated, a single orphaned child. All war wanted was itself.

Ah, surely the short story should end with tragedy, for only sorrow swoops upon you with a sudden blow. But happiness is built up from long years of small delightful things. You can't put them into a short story.

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...

Their lives had been the tragedy of one woman who couldn't make up her mind.

He went down and found the body floating. Francis had been dead about an hour. In one of his hands, clutched so that they could barely unfasten it, was a rusty nail.

I found the head nurse and asked her, and she said Dan has been flown back to America on account of they can take better care of him there. I asked her if he is okay, and she said, 'Yeah, if you can call two punctured lungs, a severed intestine, spinal separation, a missing foot, a truncated leg, and third degree burns over half the body okay, then he is just fine. I thanked her, and went on my way.

There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.

history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind;

The Russian people were left floundering in the bog. Their worst misfortune was his birth: their next worst—his death.

It is true Greek tragedy, with Chance as the ever ready hand-maid of Fate.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

the monuments of dead commanders and shot-torn regiments are of different years. An earthly palimpsest of tragedy!

London had heavy attacks on the sixteenth and seventeenth; over twenty-three hundred people were killed, more than three thousand seriously injured.

?ycie pisze najbardziej oryginalne, najbardziej komiczne a jednocze?nie najbardziej dramatyczne scenariusze.

Now enter, single file, the hosts who died early on, in Acts 3 and 4, or between scenes. The miraculous return of all those lost without a trace. The thought that they've been waiting patiently offstage without taking off their makeup or their costumes moves me more than all the tragedy's tirades.

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.

Justo castigo Un maleficio, eso es. Cuando dos personas se aman y tienen que separarse por culpa de una aberración casi cómica, ¿qué otra cosa puede ser?