Quotes About Tragedy

Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it.

The War To End All Wars - Book One - Falling Into Battle Andrew Wareham

The blades were positioned at an angle–and as they entered his body, the arrow rotated and bored in like a screw, mutilating the tissue, cutting through blood vessels and shattering bone. Aplegatt lurched forward onto his horse's neck and slid to the ground, limp as a sack of wool. The sand on the road was hot, heated up so much by the sun that it was painful to the touch. The messenger didn't feel it. He died at once.

One sees all sorts of things when one travels. Two peasants kill each other over a field which, the following day, will be trampled flat by two counts and their retinues trying to kill each other off.

Il re amava immensamente la sua consorte, e lei lo ricambiava con tutto il suo cuore. Una storia simile non poteva che finire tragicamente.

zestawia? katastrof? samolotu z dwudziestoma tysi?cami ludzi zabitych strza?em w ty? g?owy i zakopanych w bezimiennych do?ach?! To jest kolosalny przekr?t moralny. Tam nie by?o ?adnego bohaterstwa, nie by?o ?adnej ofiary. Po prostu zgin?li urz?dnicy.

Dlaczego kraj, który i tak ma nieustannie przesrane – bo a to Ruscy, a to Niemcy, a to Tatarzy, a to w?asna szlachta, a to w?asna g?upota – dodatkowo straumatyzowano najwi?ksz? tragedi? ostatnich stuleci?!

Today, most people are unaware that of the eleven million people exterminated, five million were not even Jewish. In Dachau, one of the largest and most infamous of all concentration camps, only a third of the population was Jewish.

Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.

La commedia è una tragedia che capita agli altri.

tragedies reported to us, the widow maintained her faith in Adonai, declaring that her people were bound to suffer for their disloyalty to God. "Bnei-Yisrael has done what is evil in Adonai's eyes," she would say, "and He has handed us over to our enemies. When we repent and turn to the Lord our God, He

She's dead!" Marcia gasped. And then, much more dismayed, she cried, "She's dead on my sofa!

Dandra Draa killed my father. - Kaznim

When Fran had died and people had shared their own stories of grieving he'd wanted to hit them, to scream, I don't care if someone close to you died. Don't use my tragedy to wallow in your own. You cannot come close to knowing how I feel.

occurred to her as she passed the big house that she'd have nobody to comfort her in a tragedy. She thought it was probably simpler that way, and besides she'd never been able to cope with sympathy.

Since we found Mrs Lister's body in the pool.

We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Our planet is dying. Whales will be extinct before we ever get to know them. They say these creatures are so intelligent. They may disappear from the face of the Earth before we know them, and that is a great tragedy.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

In this part of the world, due to our historical experiences with the Soviet Union and later with Russia, we are used to a situation where Moscow tends to put the blame on the people whenever a tragedy occurs, rather than on the authorities.

I rarely get recognized, and whenever I do, it has to do with 'The Leftovers' because it came into someone's life at a particularly important time for them - if they were dealing with grief or loss or whatever tragedy - and they just caught it. And there is no rhyme or reason to the kind of person it is.