Quotes About Tragedy

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.

I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of aviation.

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

He'd make a lovely corpse.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

He would make a lovely corpse.

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

The foundation of life and purpose is to find the why in you. The why in you is purpose, knowing who you are and why you are here is the meaning of life. Sadness and tragedies come to pass, the eternal question of life is why. What am I doing here? What does all this mean? To find yourself is the very reason you're born. The wonder and glory of life is the birth of purpose. There is no one separate from yourself.

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.

Every love story is a tragedy, in the end, but that's what makes them so beautiful, so cherished in the minds and hearts of those who remember them.

The new songs leaned heavily on mother and home (and the leaving of same), lonely wandering in the cruel, cruel world, and dying wishes. The songs also owed much to the first great American tragedy, the Civil War.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

The child is dead. There is nothing left to know.

And all I could think of is Oh Lord here it comes, another white man about to tell me about how much he enjoyed Ocho Rios, but would have enjoyed it so much more if it weren't for all the poverty. And the country is so beatiful and the people so friendly and even in all this tragedy everybody still manages a smile especially the bombor'asscloth children.