Quotes About Tragedy

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

Al caer en el charco, estaba casi muerto. La mano se hundió en el agua sucia y trató de asir algo, de detener algo, de impedir que algo se fuera. Luego, quedó inmóvil. Un hombre se acercó y pateó su cara dos veces. Se subieron a los coches y se fueron. Sobre el cadáver de Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, siguió lloviendo.

El cadáver de Gustavo tenía treinta y siete heridas. Había en sus bolsillos sesenta y tres pesos, tres cartas de su esposa Carolina y un libro de apuntes cuya última frase era: «Todo está perdido. Los soldados no quieren pelear».

Martín Luis Guzmán contará que se creó un impasse, que el grupito de hombres a caballo con la fila de tiradores ante ellos ni se iba ni se retiraba. Se miraban y se apuntaban, observaban a sus mutuos jefes. Hasta en la tragedia hay espacio para el absurdo.

All those people - poor Sr. Marquez, Ana-Letitia, Sergio - they died because of me? I brought that down on them? Oh, God!" Then she turned and fled up the stairs. "Well, I'd say you handled that with great sensivity." "Go to hell, Hunter!" Zach stood there, staring after her. "Your first.

Rossiter wasn't really on leave. He'd had a catastrophic fall a few years back while saving his wife's life and had lost a leg. He

Tiger, Tiger, by Margaux Fragoso.

for the weak and the ineffectual, who cannot rise to the dignity and nobility of tragedy, or the luxury of irony, for whom even ordinary acts of will are impossible, melodrama is a substitute. People deprived of the capacity to change their fate can only repetitively lament this fact, and since they belong to the vast majority of the world's population, melodrama should be taken seriously for its world-historical impact.

The two pigeons killed had just given birth. And now the baby pigeon doesn't know who he is. He is going through an identity crisis.

Yes, the death of young men in battle is a tragedy - I'd lost four brothers, I didn't need anybody to tell me that. A tragedy worthy of any number of laments - but theirs is not the worst fate. I looked at Andromache, who'd have to live the rest of her amputated life as a slave, and I thought: We need a new song.

It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there. -Cyrin

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

They're all dead," Ruth wept, her hands in front of her face as if she could not bear what she'd seen. It reminded me oddly of the weeping angels from Doctor Who.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

People died when Bran was at his most reasonable. Some of them died horribly. All of them idiots.

He did not except the fire to destroy everything they hadn't found.

But death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind

i don't really read as much but i am reading a depressing book on the holocaust....

Now it's like we on a highway to hell." He added, "At least we have Bill Cosby.

said. "That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it's done that too.