Quotes About Tragedy

Lo que Mayreni describió no fue un crimen de guerra aislado. Era una rutina. En el desfiladero de Kemaj, los kurdos y los soldados turcos de la 86.º Brigada de Caballería asesinaron a más de 20.000 mujeres y niños. En Bitlis, los turcos ahogaron a más de 900 mujeres en el Tigris.

Al cabo de dos meses, Daniel estaría muerto, decapitado por sus captores musulmanes después de ser secuestrado por encargo en Karachi, y de que lo obligaran a hablar de su familia judía en la cinta de vídeo de su vil ejecución. Su asesinato fue tan aterrador como truculento.** Volvía a poner de manifiesto no sólo la crueldad de Al Qaeda y sus satélites, sino el grado hasta el que nosotros como periodistas habíamos perdido nuestra inmunidad.

como ministro de Asuntos Exteriores israelí en abril del 2001. En una entrevista a la agencia Anatolia News, Peres dijo que «rechazamos los intentos de crear una semejanza entre el Holocausto y las acusaciones armenias. No ha ocurrido nada similar al Holocausto. Lo que padecieron los armenios es una tragedia, pero no un genocidio».

Fue una misión triste y deprimente porque cuanto más aprendía menos remedio parecía tener la tragedia de Oriente Próximo. Que los venales países occidentales traficaran con sus letales productos en el mundo musulmán e Israel era una cosa; otra muy diferente era contemplar esos mismos países de Oriente Próximo suplicando, gimiendo y despilfarrando su riqueza para comprar esas mismas armas.

tanto Israel como los Estados Unidos acusarían a los palestinos de ser incapaces de «controlar» la violencia y de ser incapaces de aceptar un acuerdo que habría concedido un triste 64 por ciento del 22 por ciento de protectorado palestino pendiente de negociación. De manera que, antes de embarcarnos en esta vergonzosa historia de pérdidas y tragedias, es imprescindible dejar claro que Israel incumplió todos los acuerdos y pactos importantes

How easy it was to capitalize on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

Men looked so tragic when they cried.

Lucky" was what people who couldn't bear to contemplate horrors needed to hear maimed and terrorized survivors call themselves.

The brutal intrusion of officialdom into private devastation.

Leda, Lula and Rochelle had not been women like Lucy, or his Aunt Joan; they had not taken every reasonable precaution against violence or chance; they had not tethered themselves to life with mortgages and voluntary work, safe husbands and clean-faced dependants: their deaths, therefore, were not classed as 'tragic', in the same way as those of staid and respectable housewives.

The game can't have been created as a means of driving Ledwell to suicide, because – well, why would it? The game was surely done out of love for the cartoon.

The only other funeral she'd attended had been four years previously, when she and Strike had attended the cremation of a murdered girl in the course of their first murder investigation,

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.

History is the geology of human experience, a study, as it were, of tragedy and comedy laid down in the strata of past lives. In death there are no winners or losers, merely people who once lived but can never live again. What they thought, what they believed, what they hoped, is largely lost. That which remains is history.

Every day there was some new tragedy, some new and inexplicable failure of the ordinary.

It was just a story about despair.

Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.

It would drive a man mad to apprehend the whole tragedy, to know every effect and consequence, to know the names of every good man and woman, every genius and every saint, who was never born because their lineage petered out there on that rise at Franklin.

Think of the wonderful chemistry by which bread was changed into the divine tragedy of Hamlet.

He made the mistake of booking first-class passage on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. When that liner struck an iceberg, the crew asked him, because of his sailing expertise, to row a lifeboat full of passengers to safety. He was an honorable man—the president of the Standard Chemical Company and a major in the Queen's Own Rifles—and he was doing a heroic deed.

Beverley's nude body lay in plain view, her legs splayed, a nylon stocking and two handkerchiefs woven together and knotted around her neck. The cause of death wasn't strangulation though, she'd been stabbed 22 times.

Many dead divers have been found inside shipwrecks with more than enough air remaining to have made it to the surface. It is not that they chose to die, but rather that they could no longer figure out how to live.

To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows.

Little boy and little girl.I don't know how old. Sweetest family in the world, of you listen to the old folks around here." Xander was stunned. "And nobody knows what happened to them?" "Some say they high-tailed it to Europe." She raised her eyebrows at him. "Most believe he took them somewhere and killed them. Then took his own life." Dad forced a smile. "Just old rumors," he said.