Quotes About Tragedy

THE DAY BEFORE Darnley's assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember.

the most breathtaking and dramatic events of Mary's life were about to unfold.

than of a border skirmish that went tragically wrong.

Within the space of six months, she had been widowed and orphaned and had lost her standing as queen of France.

All seemed to be over when Bothwell's mainmast was shot away by a cannonball

one of the two most dramatic assassinations in Scottish and British history.

cut to pieces at Flodden Field by the father of the very same English commander.

His two infant sons had died the previous year

this was to be only the first of a kaleidoscopic sequence of murderous events in her country.

AT EIGHT O'CLOCK on the fatal Saturday evening, Darnley led Lord Ruthven and an accomplice through his private apartments

Of a hundred and fifty doctors in the city, sixty-five were already dead and most of the rest were wounded. Of 1,780 nurses, 1,654 were dead or too badly hurt to work. In the biggest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors out of thirty were able to function, and only ten nurses out of more than two hundred.

In a city of two hundred and forty-five thousand, nearly a hundred thousand people had been killed or doomed at one blow; a hundred thousand more were hurt.

These violent delights will have violent ends!" My son didn't get the Westworld reference.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp.

By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.

why Edward Bonshaw had been so attached to it? "A glooming peace this morning with it brings"—well, yes, and why would such darkness ever depart? Who can happily think of what else happened to Juliet and her Romeo, and not dwell on what happened to them at the end of their story?

GOD HAS TAKEN YOUR MOTHER. MY HANDS WERE THE INSTRUMENT. GOD HAS TAKEN MY HANDS. I AM GOD'S INSTRUMENT.

Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

the first chair headed down the mountain would be Molly's last chairlift. Willy

Owen and I were eleven; we had no other way to articulate what we felt about what had happened to my mother. He gave me his baseball cards, but he really wanted them back, and I gave him my stuffed armadillo, which I certainly hoped he'd give back to me—all because it was impossible for us to say to each other how we really felt. How did it feel to hit a ball that hard—and then realize that the ball had killed your best friend's mother?

beauty, and Owen possessed a