Quotes About Tragedy

I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child, because my parents hired a pony to give rides. These ponies are never in good health, but this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around in a circle.

When the newspaper detailed the suicide of a young person, it was young drivers who then piled their cars into trees, poles, and embankments with fatal results; but when the news story concerned an older person's suicide, older drivers died in such crashes. l advised, then, to take special care in our travels at these times.

The central tragedy of the sexual abuse scandal is that those who were ordained to act in the very person of Christ became, in the most dramatic way, obstacles to Christ.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

But, oh! fell death's untimely frost,That nipt my flower sae early.

Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.

The tragedy is that the architects, by making a premature decision, multiplied the development effort enormously.

The tragedy of Nixon was that he had immense political talent and intelligence; if only he had also possessed the ability to look within and measure the darker sides to his character. It is the tragedy that confronts us all to the extent that we remain in deep denial.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That's enough for anyone to know.

Weep for Manetheren. Weep for what is lost forever.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.

They said Janduin claimed this man looked like Shaiel, and he would not raise his spear when the man ran him through.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That's enough for anyone to know. I am here for my art.

On November 13, the badly decomposed remains of Mary Meehan and her unborn baby were found buried beneath an empty lot, south of Sea-Tac. Meehan was the only victim to be fully buried by the killer.

Don't be such a crybaby. The fucking world ended. Everyone's mother is dead, you pussy. Besides... we're on our way to talk to the people who cut you mom's head off... have some motherfucking perspective.

I said you were a fucking monster! Look at what you made me do! Just fucking look! She was carrying a baby! A BABY! You made me kill a fucking BABY!

To cite a quote attributed to Oscar Wilde, "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike." It's Us versus Them framed morally, and the importance of what Greene calls "the Tragedy of Commonsense Morality" is shown by the fact that most intergroup conflicts on our planet ultimately are cultural disagreements about whose "right" is righter.

Greene calls "the Tragedy of Commonsense Morality" is shown by the fact that most intergroup conflicts on our planet ultimately are cultural disagreements about whose "right" is righter.

According to UNICEF, if ninety school buses filled with preschoolers crashed every day with no survivors, the world would notice. Yet that's how many young children perish daily from impure water and inadequate sanitation.3 One