In the initial response to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, particularly in Louisiana, governments at all levels failed in this obligation,

I can’t imagine that I’m supposed to get over it , like hopping a low stone wall; if Thursday was a barrier of some kind, it was made of razor wire, which I did not...

right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.””I suppose one could say that Hitler didn’t betray his self.””You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray...

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy...

Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds.

Death says a million words that the heart can’t pen.

For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he’d never even seen.

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our...

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts – somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.attrition rules.most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.and nowas we ready to self-destructthere is...

Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

One of the things that helps use cope with loss is the fact that while memories may remian, the emotions associated with them will fade like old photographs. At the same time, there is a...

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to...

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

It isn’t the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I...

People use to say that time can change everything but as far as I know the nothing can change the tease inside your heart .

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool’s gold in the hardest shard of rock.

Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies....

Twenty-five hundred is a terrible tragedy; Auschwitz it is not.

You’ve faced horrors in these past weeks… I don’t know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

When something is tragic you never really forget it.

Some have only been on campus a couple of weeks, … incredible tragedy.

Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done’t!” Macbeth

Wendy?

If your life is like a tragedy it is because you have been neglecting something — most likely yourself.

I salute you as the Gates of Death

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of...

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader’s own mirror.

I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn’t.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and...

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.

His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn’t care. ‘He’s alive!’ Blue said again...

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

We think it’s very important for them to be as cooperative as possible in trying to resolve this great tragedy,

Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy.

If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would take it. Without hesitation I would take it all. Maybe that’s how you...

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.

Burke said. ”It’s a tragedy for the Snelgroves. It’s a tragedy for my client and for the other officers on the street that night.

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he...

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

I don’t really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you’ll be back.I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how...

I listened as she talked, thinking that the worse the tragedy, the more people wanted to forget it–and the harder that became. Maybe that’s what made it tragic; not losing the person, but losing your...

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength...