Quotes About Tragedy

It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light.

How could a truck hack off my baby and leave the rest of my toes intact?

but they knew no better than to fortify their product with highly toxic oil of wormwood. Two of the kids had died after sampling their own product. The other two only suffered massive brain damage.

Today, I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

We travelled here in the sealed wagons; we saw our women and our children leave towards nothingness; we, transformed into slaves, have marched a hundred times backwards and forwards to our silent labors, killed in our spirit long before our anonymous death. No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz.

The things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me; I felt closer to the dead than the living, and felt guilty at being a man, because men had built Auschwitz, and Auschwitz had gulped down millions of human beings, and many of my friends, and a woman who was dear to my heart.

Ich glaube, in den Schrecken des Dritten Reichs ein einzigartiges, exemplarisches, symbolisches Geschehen zu erkennen, dessen Bedeutung allerdings noch nicht erhellt wurde: die Vorankündigung einer noch größeren Katastrophe, die über der ganzen Menschheit schwebt und nur dann abgewendet werden kann, wenn wir alle es wirklich fertigbringen, Vergangenes zu begreifen, Drohendes zu bannen.

A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There's something sad about that." He grasped her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers. "There's something sad about all couples," he said.

The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.

There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.

Funny how physics didn't go away when you were murdered.

Kent State by Deborah Wiles

That sounded so incredibly romantic. Of course, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had thought the same thing in Titanic . And look how that had ended.

One out of three." He spoke quietly but with an intensity she instantly feared. "One out of every three Jews in the world. In my country, in Poland, nine out of every ten of us died.

You name a country, and I'll tell you about a time it became obsessed with killing Jews.

This was before the Nazis settled on a more efficient method—machine-gunning Jews into the Babi Yar canyon, thirty thousand in two days.

A species that can blind itself to truth, that can plunge so enthusiastically along roads that lead nowhere but to tragedy, is sometimes amusing in its recklessness...

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

was not merely weak but also evil to throw away your life when so many had their lives or the promise of their future taken from them by cruel people or by the brutal forces of nature.

kitchen radio brought news that the jihadists who had the previous day seized an ocean liner in the Mediterranean were now beheading passengers.

Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young. —Edgar Allan Poe, "Lenore

Two fine men died during the construction of this building.