Quotes About Tragedy

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bi...ed from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, sings.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.

Lo más trágico no es ser mediocre pero inconsciente de esa mediocridad; lo más trágico es ser mediocre y saber que se es así y no conformarse con ese destino que, por otra parte (eso es lo peor), es de estricta justicia.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Tragedies don't kill you, she decided, "it's the messes. I can't stand messes. I'm not being a smart-cracker. You know I'm not when you meet me – don't you, honey?"9

Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.

One bloody battle followed another. Sometimes the North won, sometimes the South, but always the soldiers lost, thousands of them dying or maimed.

I'd never indulged in feelings of loneliness. Too dangerous. I'd learned that after my mother's murder. Loneliness could swallow you up, like a disease. Make you vulnerable to anything, even a smile. But then I'd stopped being lonely. And what was more dangerous? Loneliness? Or having friends and family who could be taken from you? "Grant

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked.

A Guardian investigation concluded that between 10,000 and 20,000 people died as an 'indirect' result of the US bombing, that is, through hunger, cold and disease as people were forced to flee the massive aerial assault. An estimate by Professor Marc Herold of the University of New Hampshire, suggests that between 3,125 and 3,620 Afghan civilians were killed by US bombing up to July 2002.3

5) No hay pruebas para apoyar el argumento de que estas víctimas, casi todas niños pequeños, fueran parte de un combate o hubieran sido atrapadas en un enfrentamiento de fuego cruzado. Por el contrario, las pruebas apoyan fuertemente la conclusión de que fueron víctimas intencionales de una ejecución masiva extrajudicial.

The mystery of death throws shadows over even the most carefree human life. None of us is truly indifferent to the possible issues concerning our personal eternity. The fall and eternal ruin of an immortal spirit is the most dreadful tragedy imaginable.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

There's no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

I hate to wake up one morning and find out she was killed in a rockslide!

No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency

This is not a happy story, it doesn't begin or end well, and the middle is equally dreadful.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

And the further tragedy here—indeed the outrage—is that with this mode of allocating social services the overall wellbeing of those disadvantaged groups is not improved. It is usually made worse, since prison staff are rarely trained in providing more than the most basic of stop-gap measures.[32]

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.