Quotes About Tragedy

Cijeli je svijet strašna zbirka podsjetnika da je ona doista postojala i da sam je ja izgubio.

Two words would comprehend my future — death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.

GeleceÄŸimi anlatmaya iki kelime yeterli olur: Ölüm ve Cehennem! Catherine'i kaybettikten sonra yaÅŸamak benim için cehennemden farks?z olur.

Sana iki kelimeyle gelecekte ne halde olaca??m? anlatmam gerekseydi 'ölümle cehennem' derdim. Onu kaybettikten sonra hayat bana cehennem olur.

Mes grandes souffrances dans ce monde ont été les souffrances de Heathcliff, je les ai toutes guettées et ressenties dès leur origine.

There's been a death in the opposite house

Whenever I hear of someone else's tragedy, I do not dwell on the accident or diagnosis, or even the initial shock waves or aftermath of grief. Instead, I find myself reconstructing those final ordinary moments. Moments that make up our lives. Moments that were blissfully taken for granted--and that likely would have been forgotten altogether but for what followed. The before snapshots.

wasn't so much that I didn't have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position in the same way that parents always worried about tragedy befalling their children.

The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people than the First World War—an estimated 3 to 6 per cent of the human race.

It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

It is the law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, must be exactly what you need most at the moment to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things? [27]

Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, "This is an accident of mortality." But if anyone's own child happens to die, it is immediately, "Alas! how wretched am I!" It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.

Behold the birth of tragedy: when idiots come face to face with the vicissitudes of life.

So-and-so's son died.' ('The question'). Answer: 'Since it's nothing he can control, it isn't bad.

For what else is tragedy than the perturbations ([Greek: pathae]) of men who value externals exhibited in this kind of poetry?

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?

For what else are tragedies but the ordeals of people who have come to value externals, tricked out in tragic verse?

Genocide is a word. Like the words "love" or "God," it seems to be comprehensible. But in fact it cannot be grasped, it cannot be taken in. It is the unspeakable made verbal.

The boys were already dead, though, and when the paramedics arrived, they determined that the body temperatures were 107 and 108 degrees.

About eighty thousand people were killed in Hiroshima and more than two thirds of the buildings were destroyed because 0.7 gram of uranium-235 was turned into pure energy. A dollar bill weighs more than that.

Captain Barry steered the plane back toward land and ordered the crew to bail out. One of the copilots, Captain Theodore Schreier, mistakenly put on a life jacket over his parachute. He was never seen again. The

La vie est une tragédie : autant la vivre en comédie.

Pourquoi est-ce que tu ne souris jamais, Momo ? me demanda Monsieur Ibrahim. Ça, c'était un vrai coup de poing cette question, un coup de vache, je n'étais pas préparé. - Sourire, c'est un truc de riche, monsieur Ibrahim. J'ai pas les moyens.