Quotes About Tragedy

the British colonies in the West Indies and North America that had helped bankroll this development relied heavily on slave labour to run their sugar and cotton plantations. It is now believed that around 20 million people were taken from their homes in Africa to work as slaves on plantations in British colonies and in the newly independent USA. Over half died on the journey.

In 1846, George Donner and his brother Jacob, Illinois farmers, set out for the promise of California in covered wagons with several families, including their own. They took a shortcut that turned out to be a longer route, hit bad weather, ran out of food, and resorted to cannibalism (yes, that means eating each other). Only a few members of the party survived.

Stonewall Jackson led our troops," he said. "Nine months later, the Battle of Chancellorsville took place not far from here. One of our guys mistook Stonewall for a Union officer and fired a volley at him. A bullet shattered his arm, and it had to be amputated just below the shoulder. Then they buried the arm in its own grave.

I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree falling in a forest and crushing a family of happy butterflies until they are dead

Hundreds of thousands of silkworms are going to die a horrible death," she bawled, "and I won't be able to do a single thing about

We are morally adrift, spiritually bankrupt, enamored with the ever-growing catalog of false idols that is consumerism, politically gullible, rage-drunk, media fattened, and ripe for a culling at the hands of one tragedy or another that will no doubt rip the golden dome of American life off its rotten foundations.

Tragedy has company, as someone aside from me probably said at some point. I

I guess there's good and bad in everyone and tragedy can amplify either.

he had a strong premonition that ship had already sailed, been set on fire by pirates and sunk into the sea.

We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin

People die. That's natural. But if you throw someone in front of a bus, they're gonna die a little faster.

they did," murmured Amanda, remembering anew the horrible night she learned of the carriage accident that had instantly killed her father and mother. As an only child, Amanda had had to deal with all the arrangements for the funeral with only her two aunts,

had begun under Roosevelt, Stimson, and Leahy when, as their subordinate General LeMay put it, "we scorched and boiled and baked179 to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9–10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. HORACE WALPOLE

'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does.

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

The villain in 'Call Me by Your Name' is the tragedy of love - what seems to be part of the deal you sign with someone when you experience an amazing time with them.

I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

If I am not playing the villain then I'll play the friend, or the brother who dies in the third reel.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.