Quotes About Tragedy

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

I want to be a pretty corpse.

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.