Quotes About Tragedy

wouldn't feel too sorry for Kaylie Rooney," Zara said coldly. "What happened to her—what happened to all of them—it was a tragedy, of course, but she was far from innocent. From what the investigator was able to piece together, the Rooney family runs just about every drug that comes through Rockaway Watch.

The way that the tragedy had been blamed, again and again, on Kaylie Rooney, when the three upstanding young men had been partying straight out of rehab.

But the last girl at this school who got tangled up with the Hawthorne brothers? The last girl who spent hour after hour in that house? She died.

And, as in all fairy tales, there was bloodshed, there was loss.

The tragedies we endure shape our lives: we carry them like shadows

The mistake of Marc Antony's death haunts all suicides, with its reminder that we do not always know where we really are in our story.

People forget that war is not simply about regimentals and anthems and brave soldiers. It is also about heartbreak and death and real people

How can something so final happen in an instant? No preparation. No warning. No chance to do all the things you planned to do. No chance to say goodbye.

In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention--he expected to fly--but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. Did he mean to kill himself? Doubtful. I think he was just cocky, and also stupid.

Besides,in that instant we went plowing through the guardrail, my words died too.

You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival - your emotional survival - will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy. The bad new: Surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: The worst is already over.

I'm sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help." "I feel responsible.

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history—greater than the fall of empires—I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

Ever since the morning, Pierre had beheld many frightful sufferings in that woeful white train. But none had so distressed his soul as did that wretched female skeleton, liquefying in the midst of its lace and its millions.

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.

The couple fell one atop of the other, struck down, finding consolation, at last, in death.

it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing...

Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.

She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.

It was nothing less than murder, in her eyes

Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort - you deserve this. You have killed yourself.

She might have been living yet, if it had not been for him!