Quotes about Tragedy

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

When we see around us the tragedy of not taking this truth seriously and when we experience within ourselves the veracity of the truth, we will be positioned to move forward in our spiritual progress. We also will have a different attitude toward those who more obviously struggle in areas where we might only secretly have a problem. Day by day, an awareness of our condition will help us grow spiritually.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

I remember a young Hungarian Jew, his shoulders stooped like an old man's, who confessed to some infraction so as to be beaten in his uncle's stead. I am young, he said, and stronger than he. He was young but no less weak. He did not survive the beating

To forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day."

The word "chimney" here was not an abstraction; it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke. It was, perhaps, the only word that had a real meaning in this place.

Jews, listen to me,' she cried. I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames.

One that most horrible day, even among all those other bad days, when the child witnessed the hanging (yes!) of another child who, he tells us, had the face of a sad angel, he heard someone behind him groan: For God's sake, where is God? And from within me, I heard a voice answer: Where He is? This is where - hanging here from this gallows.

Every tragedy is unique, just as every human is unique. When a person loses someone dear to her, who am I to say that my tragedy was greater? I have no right. For that person, her tragedy is the greatest in the world—and she is right in thinking so.