Quotes About Tragedy

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

I could only relate [to the family] that I, the father of three sons, could hardly imagine what it would be to lose one, far less three of my boys, in such a cruel and senseless manner.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

Ehe, 24 hours have gone from my father dead. It was yesterday, he suicided yesteday in the morning. Even and more than 24 hours!

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.

Life in fear is the worse tragedy that can happen to a man

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Everything happens for a reason. The daily tragedies and misfortunes are all meaningful events, leading toward an ideal conclusion. With that in mind, there probably isn't really any meaningless misfortune.

Happiness is best achieved when you have gone through tragedy and sorrow.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways-- either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

We've all had our tragedies in life to deal with, it is up to us to become a stronger person for it, and go on, not dwell in the past that can't be changed.

For every tragedy there is a miracle to make up for it, just somewhere else.

The tragedy in the life of a timid man is not necessarily that he is timorous, but obviously there is something that dies in him while he still lives.

Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching our goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.