Quotes about Tragedy

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

There is no character more frequently given to a writer than that of being a genius. I have heard many a little sonneteer called a fine genius. There is not a heroic scribbler in the nation that has not his admirers who think him a great genius; and as for your smatterers in tragedy, there is scarce a man among them who is not cried up by one or other for a prodigious genius.

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

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.

We're not supposed to outlive our children. It goes against nature's plan of things.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

The cross, the zenith of history. All of the past pointed to it, and all of the future would depend upon it. It's the great triumph of heaven: God is on the earth. And it is the great tragedy of earth: man has rejected God.

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

One way the enemy of our souls deflects the shame he experienced at the Cross is to keep us too heaped in our own shame to notice his. The tragedy is that we play right along, as if he were more believable than Jesus.