Quotes About Tragedy

Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.

It's always the same story. Naturally one doesn't get the woman one should have had; but if by some damned freak of reason and justice it ever does happen, then of course she dies immediately after.

I've wrought my family's destruction. Killed those I loved most, with my very touch. My dark precipice has been reached. I throw back my head and roar as recognition takes hold. I am Death...

And the bleak one? Bowen? What's his damage? Why does he look so bad? He lost someone verra close to him. I'm sorry, she said softly. When did it happen? Early eighteen hundreds. And he still hasn't recovered? He's gotten worse. Lachlain rested his forehead against hers. It's our nature, Emma.

I'd assumed Jack's death was the worst that I could endure. Matthew might have been preparing me for both of their murders. Dear

How cruel the atomic bomb is to an innocent child, Sensei.

Mr. Smith was an art-ist, as well as an in-vent-or, and he paint-ed a pic-ture of a riv-er which was so nat-ur-al that, as he was reach-ing a-cross it to paint some flow-ers on the op-po-site bank, he fell in-to the wa-ter and was drowned.

She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

There's nothing more romantic than self-destruction.

There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.

Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.