Quotes about Tragedy

She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.

She might have been living yet, if it had not been for him!

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?

People kill for love. They die for love.

It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.

Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Greek mythology tells of a beautiful youth who loved no one until the day he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with that reflection. He was so lovesick, he finally wasted away and died, and was turned into a flower that bears his name — Narcissus.

lost her only son—and Elijah to blame.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

SCRIVEN (1820—1886) wrote "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" after his fiancée drowned. George Matheson (1842—1906) wrote "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go" after his fiancée rejected him because he was going blind.