Quotes About Tragedy

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I've admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God's existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.

WTF is praying gonna do for Vegas? Apparently God likes mass shootings.

The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

There is no good war.

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, there will be tragic moments in it.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.