Quotes About Tragedy

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided.

You don't know anything about pain until you've seen your own baby drowned in a tub... and you definitely don't know anything about how to wash a baby.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Keep being yourself as well. Many times when life gets us down, all we desire for is some normalcy after tragedy.

The tragedy of being an underachiever is that I know what I should be, but reality keeps telling me that I'm wrong.

Guys die down here on a regular basis-that's the reality. They die here for a nickel. They are killed for a piece of change or because somebody looks at somebody wrong.