Quotes About Tragedy

Those who murder children have killed their own souls and exist rather than live, and neither live nor exist in any world to come.

If someone had killed Hamlet in the first act, a lot more people would've been alive at the end.

She has no family in the outside world. They are all dead.

One eye had been torn from its socket.

To justify murdering tens of millions, Stalin is reputed to have said, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Every year in this war and that, even in our own cities, countless children are killed, while those who spray the bullets—or plant the roadside bomb, authorize the use of nerve gas, send the drone with the Hellfire missile that strikes the wrong target—shed not a tear, referring to those tender deceased as mere "collateral damage," if they acknowledge

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Jason Bookman, right hand to Parable founder, Dorian Purcell, and his pilot died today in the crash of a helicopter owned by the company.

Tragedy materialized before Ludlow at 2:15 a.m.

It's not tragedy, the way they report it, not horror, certainly not war reporting. It's all spectacle, and once you let yourself see it that way, your soul begins to turn to dust.

The cause of death was drowning.

There's nowhere on Earth where people haven't died in sorry ways.

Soon, both of the Dawson children would be slaughtered, reduced to nothing more than bloody mounds of dead meat.

Their baby girl had been born premature while Ian was at sea, and it became immediately apparent that she had a defective heart. By the time Ian returned home, Allison Marie had already been laid to rest.

The little girl's voice was thin with pain. "They were so pretty," she said. And then she died.

Being in your twenties has changed a lot since I was in my twenties, but it is still a time everything awful that happens is awful in a romantic way, even if you don't admit it (and you can't admit it because then you would be less important in the tragedy you're starring in, your own life)...because in your twenties you know, even if you don't admit this either, even if this is buried deep in your subconscious, that you can waste an entire decade and still have a life.

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

The movie's not over till everybody's dead.

Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, "This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.

Gladys had seen all of this, and she made it his to know. She'd lost her future to death, and lost her child to life.

She died in a fire. I miss her like you... If I was underwater, I wouldn't miss oxygen that much.

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)

Twelve dead?" I said. "Jesus.

Said, My whole fucking family, you believe that shit? A week ago we all in the pink, eating dinner 'round the table—my son and daughter-in-law, my daughter and son-in-law, three grandchildren, and Bess. Just sitting and eating and jawing. And then, then, it was like God Hisself reached through the roof and into their house and closed his hand 'round the whole family and squeezed. Like we was flies on the table, he said. Like that.