Quotes About Tragedy

Have I somehow perhaps been in a hurry to experience everything I would have to experience as soon as possible, so that I would have extra time to… to live without facts? to live . Did I early on discharge all my sense duties - early and quickly experience pains and pleasures - to get free all the sooner of my lesser human destiny? to get free so that I could seek my tragedy.

Un ignorante con poder es una fatalidad.

If this were a domestic tragedy, and it might well be, this would be your fatal flaw--your memory, vessel of your feelings.

Sevdi?i adamla evlenmeyi Zaza'ya yasaklad?lar. Genç k?z kederinden sarar?p soldu, t?pk? amans?z bir hastal??a yakalanm?? gibi öldü bu dert yüzünden. Menenjit dendi. Yirmi ya??nda a?ktan ölünebilece?ini saklaman?n bir yolu bu muydu yoksa?

The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

But I did it! That's the thing—I did it! What will my father say when he hears I murdered a man? Lorna, I see what I did. I murdered myself, too! I've been running around in circles. Now I'm smashed!

The answer to the nagging conundrum of how a civilized country like Germany could produce the Holocaust is that Germany ceased to be civilized from the moment Hitler came to power.

and the main reason he was so easily forgotten is that a Gestapo officer blew his brains out.

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

As a Jewish teenager in Czechoslovakia she was fated to be swept up by the Nazis,

Auschwitz, where she wound up in a block for young girls.

Any of the kneeling girls who fell over was taken away to be gassed,

Latin America in the late twentieth century was a tragic laboratory for testing all the wrong ways to think about a national culture.

That, in fact, was the joke that killed him: he was arrested soon after making

the young daughter of Sejanus is taken away to be killed. "What have I done?" Tacitus has her say. "Where are you taking me? I won't do it again.

We have heard that voice before, but it was later: it was only yesterday, in the Ukraine, at one of the Dubno shooting pits,

Hamlet himself knew just what to expect: Steady reduction of his body mass Until the day, his very coffin wrecked, Some clown picked up his skull and said, 'Alas.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Nicht nur Menschen, auch Rechtsgrundsätze wurden [...] von den Trümmern der Twin Towers erschlagen.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.

I find it devastatingly sad that a woman could disappear to this extent, leaving no trace other than a daughter who barely remembers her.

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.