Quotes About Tragedy

Thus down the ages, millions suffered and died. Bad art and disastrous theology had prepared the way for Hitler and his 'final solution'.

Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn't if they knew what that trip's like.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

my conviction that the Holocaust is no less historically explicable than any other human experience, though the job is not easy.

The survivors who came off best were Jewish Germans who managed to flee the country before the Holocaust or who survived it somehow on German soil.

I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.

Two hundred and fifty thousand people a year in England alone went missing. Of those, one-third were never seen again.

So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.

But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelechís head, crushing his skull.

And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”

Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saulís sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died with him.

How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

But Asahel refused to turn away; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into his stomach, and it came out his back, and he fell dead on the spot. And every man paused when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.

And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of Davidís servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?í If so, then you are to say, ëYour servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.í”

After some time, Davidís son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Davidís son Absalom.

While they were on the way, a report reached David: “Absalom has struck down all the sons of the king; not one of them is left!”

And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalomís head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died