Quotes About Tragedy

Just like my great-grandfather," Jack said. "He died in his sleep. Much more peacefully than the screaming passengers in the car he was driving.

Humans waste far too much time worrying about things that will never befall them. It's my experience that the greatest tragedies are the ones that don't even cross our minds—the events that blindside us on a Friday afternoon when we're wondering how to spend our weekend.

I still think the greatest hurt isn't to lose love, it's the regret of never having it. To have never felt love, that would be true tragedy.

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

not only did Horace Greeley, in less than a month's time, lose his wife, the election, his money, his mind, and his own life, but he also became the only presidential candidate of a major political party to receive no electoral votes.

The fields burned, the land destroyed, the lovers left broken in the brown dirt.

Much had happened to Churchill in the interval between these two speeches. In January 1895 his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, died at the age of forty-five from a degenerative illness, possibly syphilis,

I saw kids die of tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia and broken hearts at St. Jerome's.

Men are responsible before God, not only for their personal sins but also for their national sins. The tragedy of all the captive nations is a responsibility on the hearts of American and British Christians. Americans must know that they have at times unwittingly assisted the Russians in imposing on us a regime murder of and terror.

Ask yourself if it is not also your sin that such tragedies occur, that such Christian families are alone and not helped by you who are free.

Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.

There was probably nothing to be done about a woman like this. Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.

With their mother lying in a coma twenty miles away, they clung together drunkenly and wept for the loss of their father.

There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love.

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.

Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo.

When Love And Jealousy Collide On The Slopes, Winter Break Turns Deadly

I set off, off to kill the man I loved.

It's more than looks," said Eddie, growing pensive. "It's the way they act too. Micah's the same—outgoing, optimistic, excited. That's how Mason was. There are too few people like that in the world: people who are genuinely good. Mason was taken away from the world too soon. I won't let that happen to Micah." Eddie

I tortured myself day after day with what if? questions. What if I'd been faster and stronger during the Strigoi fight? What if I hadn't told him where the Strigoi were in the first place? And what if I'd simply been able to return his love? Any of those could have kept him alive, but none of them had happened. And it was all my fault.

Julia had it easy... She never had to kill Romeo

maior de todas as tragédias não é a morte, mas a falta de propósitos na vida.