Quotes About Tragedy

Sorry about what happened to your brother Robert." I didn't even understand what she was talking about. I had to wait until I got settled in at Ironwood and was allowed to make a phone call. My daughter told me that my brother Robert was dead.

The shorter Negro stood gazing at the horrible death of his brother without flinching. Five minutes later he was also hanged.

Then these lynchers went quietly away and the bodies of the woman and three men were taken out and buried with as little ceremony as men would bury hogs.

Las palabras empleadas para describir los sismos eran predecibles: tragedia, desastre, catástrofe. No circuló la que mejor habría explicado lo que estaba ocurriendo: vértigo.

Death is a good career move if it can be timed right, and no one ever timed it better than Hank Williams

Audrey was the first of many who found Hank more lovable dead.

I was twenty-nine years old when I died. Died; I use the term loosely. I was murdered, but within the dictates of the law and with the full approval of the king, even though he was barely eighteen years at the time.

I sell mayhem, scandal, murder and doom.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

It's not the tragedy that can ruin you—it's your own attitude toward it. You can let adversity make or break you, Jason. It's up to you.

For the greatest of tragedies I am destined to endure, I thank you for gifting them All to me.

The funniest people are the saddest once

The funniest people are the saddest ones

We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends

It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.

it is a truth of historical fiction that all the characters are long dead; all the lives and stories have ended, and usually not well.

Passion is tragedy-in-waiting

KENnEDY SHOT. OSWALD SHOT TOO.

You his brother?' 'Yes, damn it!' I burst out. "And all I want is to get my hands on whoever did this to him!' 'Funny,' said a dick dryly, 'but so do we.' I didn't like him much after that. Sarcasm is out of place when a man has just been brought face to face with personal tragedy. ("Walls That Hear You")

Here in neutral Holland one sunlit June day followed another. Only a few people—like Willem—insisted that the war was Holland's tragedy too.

Then rifle fire split the air. Around us women began to weep. A second volley. A third. For two hours the executions went on. Someone counted. More than seven hundred male prisoners were killed that day.

In 1959 Corrie was part of a group that visited Ravensbruck, which was then in East Germany, to honor Betsie and the 96,000 other women who died there. There Corrie learned that her own release had been part of a clerical error; one week later all women her age were taken to the gas chamber.

If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead." - Cory Herndon

If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead.