…it struck her, this was tragedy– not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

O honorable strumpet

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young – and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the...

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more …

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers. Education...

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look...

Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn’t just sad and slow music. It’s a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the...

It is a great tragedy when a young child loses a parent, as Elian did during his trip to the United States, … But it is an equal tragedy for any parent to face the...

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is...

If the sky falls, there’ll be a bigger sky behind it.

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible...

Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us.

The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame[…]The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he’s circling at eye level now and seems to have lost...

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see...

We have really been moved by so much tragedy that I said to our guys that we need to do something that can lighten their load momentarily and give the people a fun evening. We...

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

This tragedy didn’t hit Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It hit America.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

(…)que morrer é acabar e amor não tem saída(…)

Talkatives complain, cry, shout, brag, and are more hysterical about their lives than something else; don’t be a part of that tragedy! Perhaps it’s been a while now that you have been complaining, crying and...

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?…The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to...

Compliance means turnover of the two suspects for trial. It’s been almost 10 years since the Pan Am 103 tragedy, this has gone on for far too long.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked...

The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He’s this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot...

Life is one big Coaster Ride -Sometimes You are UP, sometimes Down and sometimes You are in the Middle Screaming your head off wondering what it’s all about!!!

It’s hard to put an estimate to this. A lot of the buildings are extremely old. Beyond the tragedy that happened, there’s a lot of history lost.

a tragedy, a disgrace.

she is waiting the day she would stop writing about him in her daily book

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, “What is important to me now?

I know that you’re selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven’t the nerve of a rabbit, I know you’re a liar and a humbug, I know that you’re utterly contemptible. And the...

This is why some relationships look so beautiful and some look so tragic — beauty belongs to the thoughtful; tragedy to the neglectful.

In your tragedies you will find your most magnificent opportunities for rebirth.

We only learn wisdom through suffering.

And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men...

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don’t fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

It simply tells a story about two rather unremarkable men and their tragedy. It doesn’t wave a banner of triumph over any lifestyle. It is a story about life. A realistic story, and a very...

He’s opening a door, but he already knows I won’t walk through. The power of Bodee is in the way he reads me, sees through me, and then understands the truth behind the facade. He’s...

Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

I won’t cause you any problems by reporting this. You will have no trouble from me.

No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that’s left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can’t help but...

The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being...

Francis stared down at the Duchess of York’s letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, “It was showed by John Sponer that King Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us, was through great...

It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (…): the absurd pretension that human...