Quotes About Tragedy

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.