Quotes About Tragedy

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

History is a bath of blood.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost.

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.