Quotes About Tragedy

I lost my wife to cancer and I saw the impact of telling my story - this is what happened, this is what God did and why he was faithful.

It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.

Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader's tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction.

I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

If I hear about a tsunami that hit Asia, hundreds of people have lost their lives, and you see it and you hear about it, but you still brush your teeth, still have to go on with your day. But let you get information about one person who you're close to or you're intimate with, it has an almost paralyzing effect.

They murdered him.

the storm hit the back of the house. The roof was torn off instantly, and the walls smashed in. The whole building was ripped out of the ground and folded over onto itself. Josh saw the open doorway close around his mother like a mouth, swallowing her out of sight, and then the whole building was blown apart into pieces and snatched away on the wind.

They were pitifully few in numbers. More than two thirds of the town's population had died in the storm

Pa had loved her too much, and it had been the death of her

That is some gift you have, Mr. Sloane… what you did to those jurors. I don't know how you did it, how you convinced them. They didn't want to believe you. I saw it when they came back. They had their minds made up." A tear rolled down her cheek; she disregarded it. "Well, consider this, Mr. Sloane. My Emily is dead, and my grandson will never have his mother. That is something you can't change with your words.

his corporal, Victor Cruz, advised him not to make friends in Vietnam, that it was easier that way when those soldiers were killed.

He didn't kill himself. The grief did that." "I

Your father was a great man. He didn't kill himself. The grief did that." "I

The wild hetman stood like a statue for a space, dimly grasping something of the cosmic tragedy of the fitful ephemera called mankind and the hooded shapes of darkness which prey upon it.

Mournier defined his own position as one of 'tragic optimism--' a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite the fact that the Absolute cannot be contained in history.

The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

En marzo del 2003, Rachel Corrie, una joven estadounidense que había viajado a Gaza para intentar evitar que los israelíes destruyeran hogares palestinos, se plantó frente a una excavadora Caterpillar israelí para obligar al conductor a detenerse. Pero la arrolló. Y volvió a pasar por encima de ella. Cuando sus amigos corrieron en su ayuda, dijo: «Me he partido la espalda», y murió.

8.000 soldados iraquíes habían sido enterrados vivos en sus trincheras por las excavadoras y arados montados sobre los tanques de la división de infantería motorizada estadounidense,6 el breve momento de compasión que esto generó seguramente tuvo más que ver con la conciencia culpable por la pasividad occidental para con los insurgentes iraquíes que con la enorme pérdida de vidas humanas que representaba.

Ahora bien, visto de modo retrospectivo, esa retirada —en una época en que los Estados Unidos no habían tomado un partido en Oriente Próximo— fue una de las grandes tragedias de nuestro tiempo. Los europeos nos apoderamos de la zona. Y fracasamos. Cuando los Estados Unidos volvieron a entrar en la región un cuarto de siglo más tarde, lo hicieron por el petróleo y, poco después, como partidarios casi incondicionales y financiadores de Israel.