Quotes About Tragedy

The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks!

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt; And this they knew and felt, at least the one, The leader of the hand he had undone,-- Who, born for better things, had madly set His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.

whom the god loves dies young

They grieved for those who perished with the cutter, and also for the biscuit casks and butter.

all they'll ever find of you is a grease slick clear down to Toledo

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

A human can take only so much depravity and senseless loss of life.

La bambina di due cittadini Canadesi Miriam e Joseph Pallorino è morta Mercoledì in un incidente stradale nella Toscana. La bambina, Angela Pallorino, aveva quattro anni . . .

The horrors of war pale beside the loss of a mother." -Anna

These children often drift from one temporary, abusive or neglectful situation to another, and often are routinely drugged to control them ("Prescription for Tragedy, "Los Angeles Times, 5-17-1998). By the time they are legally emancipated adults and return to the streets from which many were rescued, 75% have been sexually abused.

The great tragedy is that knowledge-even incomplete-comes late.

Granted, he'd been royally messed up at that time. Years ago, Jason had died of a rare and misdiagnosed heart condition. His family had fallen apart, and James had . . . lost himself. So much so that he'd asked Hannah to walk away from her life and go explore the planet with him. She'd declined and ghosted him.

I mean, a lot of teenage guys fail in their first relationships. Not many of them murder the girl involved.

And for a time, there was nothing else to be done. I wept. And the city burned.

MURPHY'S SATURN HAD gotten a little blown up a couple of years back

See, that's the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get it. They have good, even noble reasons for doing whatever it is they do. They don't want to misuse it, they don't want to abuse it, and they don't want to become vicious monsters. Good people, decent people, set out to take the high road, to pick up power without letting it

I wept. And the city burned.

Your tragedy is God's opportunity to show Himself faithful.

What you think to be a tragedy id God's opportunity to show Himself faithful.

I suppose poor Adams never recovered from the suicide of his wife, though it is arguable whether anyone ever truly recovers from anything.

The dog's story was just another tragedy among innumerable similar cases that are seldom brought to light because the principals involved cannot tell their own stories.

Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That's about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today's even greater scourge?

recognize now that there was nothing unusual in this: confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred