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Quotes About Tragedy

I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!
~ Usher
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
~ William Shakespeare
Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.
~ William Shakespeare
Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.
~ William Shakespeare
The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!
~ William Shakespeare
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!This was the most unkindest cut of all
~ William Shakespeare
There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
I am dying Egypt dying.
~ William Shakespeare
Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
~ William Shakespeare
Widening blood puddles spilled from suffocating death wounds.
~ Jazz Feylynn
Death had touched her, hurt her, and left her to deal with its disagreeable aftermath.
~ Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.
~ Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies.
~ Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
But you said so yourself, the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.
~ Unknown
She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...
~ Alice Munro
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
At the end to death I must go, Finishing a real tragic and funny show.
~ Unknown
There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.
~ Chuck Bridges
The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.
~ Bobby Adair, Ebola K: Book 2
Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.
~ P.D. James
Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!
~ Unknown
She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.
~ Suzanne Collins
People do not die from suicide. They die from sadness.
~ Anonymous