Quotes About Tragedy

She sat on the toilet and cradled her aborted baby, as if it were alive. And her eyes were like an endless well where you could not see the bottom.

She sat on the toilet and cradled the miscarriage her husband beat out of her, as if it was alive. And her eyes were like an endless well where you could not see the bottom.

Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.

Some say the ocean roars, I hear it ever weeping. Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before. Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.

He's dead, Walt. Like you always say, 'Buried in a shallow grave and shit off a cliff by a coyote.

their child is dead? Sure

You know, Pete Conrad died on a motorcycle." "Who's Pete Conrad?" "The third man to walk on the moon.

It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

It is a grace that comes, unexpected, after tragedy- this reminder that most hearts are good.

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first call promising.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

Indeed, the price one had to pay to remain true to the logic of History was terrible. One had to behold passively the death of thousands, take on one's conscience the torture of women and children transformed into human torches

She said Mom closed up the house one day, turned the oven on full, and sat by its open door. Apparently it's still a Cry For Help, even though our oven's electric.

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

The struggle these veterans face receiving adequate care for PTSD and depression is a tragedy that needs to be addressed, which is why I cosponsored the Clay Hunt SAV Act.

Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.

I was 9 years old when my father - a strong, vibrant man in his early 40s - died of a heart attack. He was such a central figure in our lives that losing him was a terrible shock to all of us, my mother in particular.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.