Quotes About Tragedy

In a hole in the ground, a man lay extremely dead.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?

The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question

Joy, it seemed, came in unexpected bursts, buried among the mundane and ordinary, balanced by tragedy and sorrow.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

I lost both my parents, and it wasn't as hard as losing Paul, because you've got your whole life with them - you know it's going to happen. With Paul being my best friend, I just didn't see it coming.

Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

The attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the darkest moments in our nation's history, and we will forever remember the thousands of service members and civilians whose lives were tragically taken on that horrible day.

My home state of Kentucky has been especially hard hit. In 2015, more than 1,300 Kentuckians died after drug overdoses, many with opioids in their system. That's about four per day.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

In a society like ours, to seek for literary glory seems to me an anachronism. Of what use is it to invoke an ancient sibyl when a muse is on the eve of birth? Pitiable actors in a tragedy nearing its end, that which it behooves us to do is to precipitate the catastrophe. The most deserving among us is he who plays best this part. Well, I no longer aspire to this sad success!

había muy pocas posibilidades de encontrarlo, y todavía menos de que alguno de los cuarenta y cinco pasajeros y tripulantes hubieran sobrevivido a la catástrofe.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Fíjate, cuando uno de los personajes del libro muere de un disparo, un hilo de su sangre recorre todo el pueblo hasta llegar a donde se encuentra la madre del muerto. Todo es así, en el límite de lo sublime o de lo cursi. Como el bolero

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

It reminded me that illness will always be with you as long as life is with you. And tragedy will be with you too.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

Up to the moment of this writing… the Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a combination of technological ingenuity, fanaticism, and cruelty.

Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!