Quotes About Tragedy

This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning

There's a hole as big as Lucifer's arse in the hull where the powder barrels blew out,

Lo irreal no es lo opuesto a lo real, sino su lenguaje. Lo banal no es lo contrario de lo profundo, sino su fracaso. Lo trágico no es el reverso de lo cómico, sino su vecino. Lo antiguo no es la negación de lo nuevo, sino su futuro.

You should care about things in a way that makes it a possibility that tragedy will happen to you.

be my first accidental murder.

awkward parent. His mother died in childbirth

It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment. Until then, America thought she was witnessing nothing more serious than the worst aviation disaster in history; now she had a sense of the fantastic vehemence ranged against her.

ten thousand Soviet evacuees had been drowned off Tallinn, and twenty-three thousand Hungarian Jews murdered at Kamenets Podolsk, in the same three day period. But these were far from the only deaths in those few August days.

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes — incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Alice Miller conveyed to her readers new hope to overcome the deadly cycle of war, attachment disturbance and domestic violence. In public she was the protagonist in the fight for self-realization and the protection of children; at home she was rather the protagonist of personel tragedy, repeating the cycle of attachment disorder and violence with her eyes open. The True "Drama of the Gifted Child

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

In the rain-swept afternoon my heart discovers the tragedy of autumn raining from the trees.

Something good always came out of tragedy. He had heard that many times and now he knew it was true. God had given him a second chance at life and he was going to grab it with both hands.

there was just a game. They had killed someone and they thought it was funny. How had she allowed that to happen? How had

after Monster T shot himself) "Smart guy," Joker said, and he laughed. "Lotta brains.

Buildings had collapsed-once tall and mighty, now headstones for the thousands buried underneath.

took no chances with Caesarion, given his supposed paternity. Now aged sixteen, he was killed.

Raymond Yellow Thunder, a gentle, sober Pine Ridge elder; he was attacked by some white racists who stripped him naked from the waist down, forced him to dance at gunpoint, and then beat him to death—just for the fun of it.

everything—sound, sight, feeling, certainly understanding. Christine remembered little of that night other than the smear of life and loss pulling her under, sinking her soul, and the sight of her mother crumpled in a chair with Uncle Harry and his glass of Johnny Walker Red. A man called, he'd said…

But God doesn't make bad things happen or necessarily stop them from happening. What He does do is give us strength to understand and persevere, learn from and through the tragedy.

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

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name - Romeo & Juliet