Quotes About Tragedy

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.

I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

The United States lost the nuclear-powered submarine Thresher 100 miles east of Cape Cod in 1963, and the submarine Scorpion sank in 1968 in more than 10,000 feet of water 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

La plupart de ceux qui sont morts en héros dans les camps sont des croyants : des

The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field, and starting up in the gutters...

En todos sus juegos dominan el horror y el peligro. Ellas se entregan sin reservas al drama. La vida monótona y protegida de la familia resulta aburrida, y todo está permitido con tal de mantener la emoción. La vida, sin la desgracia, es insoportable.

It is a national tragedy of incalculable proportions....What is wrong with the United States that it can provide the environment for such an act? There is sickness in the nation when political differences cannot be accepted and settled in the democratic way. (from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle.

Es ist dieses Bild, mit dem ich lebe, sagte Dahlem, dieser vor den Flammen in den Tod springende Mann. Das Etui erinnert mich nicht nur an mein gerettetes Leben, sondern auch an den Tod des anderen. Der Splitter ist der blinde, sinnlose Zufall Leben.

Otto said: Try to figure out a way to kill us nicely. You can, of course, drop mother into the well, and maybe you could poison me somehow.

The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.

Cuando vean los cuerpos de sus hijos y hermanos, o se resignarán a la suerte o decidirán vengarse, pero a cada uno le será restituido el cuerpo de su pariente.

Sometimes our greatest tragedies become the greatest gifts we can give back to the world.

It is a cumulative tragedy, the same tragedy that blights the entire country. With so many dead bodies, how do you begin to rebuild? How do you trust enough to hope? And how do you hold on to life when it no longer seems worth living?

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

Well, I've been here since thirty-eight. I was at Elgen first. I did thirty childbirths there; before Elgen I hadn't done any. Then came the war. My husband died in Kiev. So did my two children. Boys. A bomb. More people have died around me than in any battle in war. They died when there was no war, before there was a war. All the same. Grief is like happiness: it comes in all forms.

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

For me, as for all the world, the War was a tragedy and a vast stupidity, a waste of youth and of time; it betrayed my faith, mocked my love, and irremediably spoilt my career.

It is notable that the response to each public tragedy or threat in modern America seems to involve a call for citizens to surrender more of their rights.

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.

My teen angst has a body count.

Unfortunately, by then, he had already seen the last of his beloved elephant Bandoola. The great tusker had been killed before war's end, in circumstances that would haunt Williams for the rest of his life. It was, he would always maintain, nothing short of murder