Quotes About Tragedy

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

The funniest people are the saddest ones

Death is the saddest part of life.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be."Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war

There's no tragedy you can't profit from.

Life is a tragedy. so, walk through it with a dam SMILE

Pues la ambición sólo se inflama ante lo azaroso del éxito y el logro fácil, pero nada eleva el corazón de modo tan espléndido como la caída de un hombre en lucha contra el predominio invencible del destino. Esa es la más grandiosa tragedia de todos los tiempos, la que de cundo en cuando logra crear algún poeta, y la vida miles de veces.

Nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

Vader wasn't a galaxy-conquering psychopath. He was a sad man whose one love in life had died, and whose one anchor to the world of the living was, yes, a galaxy-conquering madman.

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

In Berlin, after she took part in a failed general strike and uprising, her petite figure with its large hat and parasol still considered a threat by right-wingers, Rosa Luxemburg was beaten and shot by army officers and her body dumped in a canal.

more than 35 percent of all German men who were between the ages of 19 and 22 when the fighting broke out, for example, were killed in the next four and a half years, and many of the remainder grievously wounded. For France, the toll was proportionately even higher: one half of all Frenchmen aged 20 to 32 at the war's outbreak were dead when it was over.

Of the 120,000 British troops who went into battle on July 1, 1916, more than 57,000 were dead or wounded before the day was over—nearly two casualties for every yard of the front. Nineteen thousand were killed, most of them within the attack's first disastrous hour, and some 2,000 more who were badly wounded would die in hospitals later.

In addition to deliberately shooting more than 5,000 Belgian civilians and setting fire to thousands of buildings, they had poured gasoline into the famous university library at Louvain and burned it to the ground, along with its priceless collection of 230,000 books and 750 medieval manuscripts.

One traveler to the Congo came on a deserted town where a fifteen-foot boa constrictor was dining on smallpox victims' flesh, and on another where the vultures were so gorged that they were too heavy to fly.

When a final tally was made after the war, it would show that 27,927 Boers—almost all of them women and children—had died in the camps, more than twice the number of Boer soldiers killed in combat.)

both sides together suffered another half a million dead and wounded just during the war's final five weeks.

I began to read more. The further I explored, the more it was clear that the Congo of a century ago had indeed seen a death toll of Holocaust dimensions.

On this final half day of the war, after the peace was signed, 2,738 men from both sides were killed and more than 8,000 wounded.