Quotes About Tragedy

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

later learned that the aircraft carrying Lieutenant Thomas Meehan, 1st Sergeant William Evans, and most of the headquarters element, flew steadily onward, and then did a slow wingover to the right. The plane's landing lights came on as it approached the ground. It appeared they were going to make it, but the aircraft hit a hedgerow and exploded, instantly killing everyone on board. If I survived the jump, I would be the company commander.

To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When it comes, it is not an accident, but a necessity. It is not the sort of suffering which is inseparable from this mortal life, but the suffering which is an essential part of the specifically Christian life. It is not suffering per se but suffering-and-rejection, and not rejection for any cause or conviction of our own, but rejection for the sake of Christ.

The saddest part of life will never be about you, but about someone else's death.       The

Sì certo, complessivamente una storia ridicola, una vicenda come tante, banale, storta, comica, meschina. Era tanto semplice capirlo, non poteva che finire così, su, coraggio, buonanotte, a domani, non ne vorrà fare una tragedia spero, raddrizzi il nodo della cravatta piuttosto. Una doverosa risata. Buonanotte.

Demek ki yaÅŸam bir tür ÅŸakayd?: kibrinden, girdiÄŸi bir iddia yüzünden her ÅŸeyi yitirmiÅŸti.

The Seventh and Eighth symphonies are my requiem.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. Too many of our people died and were buried in places unknown to anyone, not even their relatives. It happened to many of my friends. Where do you put the tombstones for Meyerhold or Tukhachevsky? Only music can do that for them. Looking back, I see nothing but ruins, only mountains of corpses... I'm not exaggerating, I mean mountains... I'm sad, I'm grieving all the time.

Nije li, ipak, ljudska glupost mati svakog zla na ovom svetu?

daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas.

Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin.

The toll of the "Mall shooting" was horrific, but not as bad as it could have been. Five dead and fourteen wounded. The aftermath was the usual—thoughts and prayers and talk about gun control and mental health and then absolutely nothing was done.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

You'll never see the moments coming that will for ever mutilate your life-at least not until after they've mowed you down. -Savitar

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.