Quotes About Tragedy

Para vivir como vivo, mucho mejor fuera irme a Buenos Aires. pero es ésta la cuestión: me gustaría ir a Bs. As. el día en que un no como el de B. esta tarde se estrelle contra mi serenidad. O sea, remontar el infierno de las relaciones violentas y trágicas con los demás. Pero tal vez será así toda mi vida. Seguro que será así mientras me hago ilusiones sobre una presunta madurez y una presunta serenidad.

Tú hiciste de mi vida un cuento para niños en donde naufragios y muertes son pretextos de ceremonias adorables

Matarse es siempre una negación brutal. Pero matarse en plena juventud, en la hora del amor y la primavera es un insulto a la naturaleza.

Silloin kuusi uhaten ravisti kihariansa kerran vielä ja kylvi alas latvastansa kimmeltävää lunta kuolevan poikansa peitteeksi, koska veren kuumassa virrassa pakeni sydämestä raitis henki ja hälveni höyrynä ilmaan.

comedy and comic satisfaction thrive on things that do not exactly add up. They thrive on these discrepancies as a source of pleasure rather than pain. Yet this by no means implies that comedy is distinguished from tragedy by what one would call today a "positive attitude," "positive thinking," the ability to find something positive and satisfactory even in the worst situations.

Some people were crying because they could not find their loved ones.

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

The sinking of the Titanic has made me indescribably happy; there is, after all, an ocean.

This] shell . . . eventually becomes a tomb. The situation is truly tragic. To break out of the shell is to risk death but to stay in the shell, which is a living death, threatens one also with actual death, more inevitable but slower.

Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,   When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last;   Or when rich China vessels fall'n from high,   In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie! 160

And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

That Billy was her only child was testimony to death of the romance.

I was fascinated by Siegfried's wooden leg, a remembrance of the 1914 Battle of the Sommes, where he had earned the Iron Cross I Class for conspicuous bravery. He was proud of his service for the Fatherland; but as it turned out, the Fatherland wasn't proud of him. Just 13 years after he showed me how to play marbles and sit correctly on a horse, Siegfried and the whole Ermann family were gassed in Auschwitz for being Jewish ...

Of the Gymnasium class of 1939, half had died. Not one was yet 18.

No first-rate poet ever went mad, or ever committed suicide, though one or two, no doubt, have happened to die comparatively young.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

When I learned about this tragedy that's happening in Midway - you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste - I just felt drawn there magnetically.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

We've got one shot at this life, and to not be productive with what we've been given, to me, is a travesty. I think the biggest waste is when a human life is wasted. It's unforgivable.

War is such a wasteful activity.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

I miss Lisa 'Left Eye' every day. Watched her VH1 special many times. A tragedy. But I didn't see the movie based on her.

I've watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on.