Quotes About Tragedy

recited the dictum of Felix Pilkington, 'Life is a comedy, with sad bits.

I am resolved on a career of reparation,' he said. 'And have you? Made amends?' 'It is one of the tragedies of life, that life keeps getting in the way of good intentions. I've made some. I'll make more.

Ho letto tutti gli autori usuali, Austen, Brontë, Eliot, Hardy, ma Dickens è come un paese meraviglioso dove le persone sono più brillanti e vivaci, più comiche e più tragiche e in loro compagnia senti che il mondo è più ricco e fantastico di quanto immaginavi

My father's hand found the door locked. His calls to my mother went unanswered. He beat with his fists and called out her name, again and again, tears burning from his eyes. By the time I had come in the front door, the cake in my arms, he had broken his way in and discovered she was dead.

So many were murdered that leave was cancelled and Frenchmen from the fleet were no longer allowed on shore.

The effect was devastating.

some torn in half, some blinded and maimed, others mutilated beyond all recognition.

The news could hardly have been worse. The fall of Ulm was a disaster of epic proportions

In the sinking of the Dorothea, they had seen the future of naval warfare.

Some 68,000 Americans now die annually from drug overdoses, another 88,000 from alcohol abuse and 47,000 from suicide. More Americans die from these causes every two weeks than died during eighteen years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

What we saw was a tragedy not just for one family, for the country cannot achieve its potential when so many citizens are not reaching theirs.

it's tragic that up to 40 percent of all pregnancies globally are unplanned or unwanted—and that almost half of those result in induced abortions. By some measures, more than one quarter of all maternal deaths could be avoided if there were no unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.

One of the pleasures of following baseball is that every day its characters participate in an unfolding narrative of events in which there are heroes, clowns, and villains, moments of comedy and tragedy, and plenty of time during the pauses between pitches for daydreaming.

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek.

Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer.

Hamlet got a gun now.

On February 3, 1959, near Fargo, North Dakota, an airplane carrying Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson) crashed, killing all aboard. Waylon Jennings, who was in Holly's band at the time, gave his seat to the Big Bopper at the last minute.

And it was gone—the super-carrier Justice. At least three thousand souls manning its gun crews, engine rooms, half a dozen flightdecks ... all gone in a brilliant, pixelated flash of light. The massive ship fractured into two main pieces, and the aliens, not content with the destruction, blasted the remaining larger half until it too exploded into several dozen smaller pieces.

She saw more blood in the snow that winter than she had in the whole of her life.

Her smile was the kind of smile Hild had imagined on the water sprite's face as she pulled her down and drowned her.

Either we learn from Greek tragedy how to read human history, or we never learn how to read it.

Der Geschichte ist nicht der Ort, wo die Antagonismen sich auflösen, sondern wo sei vergessen werden. Dir irdischen Siege sind nicht optimistische dialektische Synthesen, sondern tragisches empirisches Verschwinden eines der Elemente des vorhergehenden Antagonismus.