Tragedy Quotes (986 Quotes)

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

For the early hours on Wednesday, the students needed to talk about the tragedy and process the information. As the day progressed a sense of normalcy returned, but we'll keep a close eye on some of the students who seem to be affected the most.

We want to help kids affected by the tragedy as much as we can.

It was one of those other aspects that added to the whole unfortunate nature of the tragedy.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age not that men are poor all men know something of poverty not that men are wicked who is good Not that men are ignorant what is truth Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

I'm not sure that jurors are really going to care about the niceties of mental illness when they hear someone mock 9-11 that way. It's such an inhuman perspective on a tragedy, so full of spite and hate, that jurors may decide there is no place on this earth for this guy.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Moving to the estate tax would be a travesty on top of a tragedy,

It would be a tragedy if these kids were left out. I definitely see us involved, regardless of the Pac-10 Tournament.

We were very cognizant of the fact that there are a lot of people being killed over in Iraq every day, and not just foreigners, a lot of Iraqis are being killed. This tragedy that we are feeling is a part of a much larger tragedy.

This is just the way nature behaves and I find it astounding how tremendously lucky this country's been in the past 20 years in the lack of a major landfall. People need to view this as a tragedy, an event of nature that occasionally occurs, and we shouldn't blame anybody for it.

With (Katrina), it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 911 did.

After a tragedy, we find a way to shake the troubles. It's a somber locker room since they found out. But they have been very businesslike.

We entered into this agreement because the mistakes that led to this tragedy were our mistakes, and want to focus on the job of setting things right,

Sen. John Kerry , D-Mass., said Bush continues to invent a false link between the war in Iraq and the tragedy of Sept. 11. ... has offered America a false choice, between resolve and retreat.

It's a shame that someone would use a tragedy and spread inaccurate information.

It would be best for one to admit to this wrongdoing. To give some semblance of closure to the family who has been stricken with this tragedy.

Not only is the toll a human tragedy, but it means these people are less able to carry on productive lives, and this undermines social and economic development.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

I don't think it's a sad commentary on society. We're just inundated with tragedies. I guess it's a defense mechanism to compartmentalize these things and set them aside.

Our goal is to keep children at home from accessing a firearm, and avoiding a tragedy. When you buy a bottle of children's aspirin, it has more protection than a firearm. We can change that.

Butcher of Washington, you are not only defeated and a liar, but also a failure. You are a curse on your own nation and you have brought and will bring them only catastrophes and tragedies. Bush, do you know where I am I am among the Muslim masses.

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of the lightness of great purifications. I wish the fiery transcendence would carry me up and throw me into a sea of flames, where, consumed by their delicate and insidious tongues, I would die an ecstatic death. The beauty of flames creates the illusion of a pure, sublime death similar to the light of dawn. Immaterial, death in flames is like a burning of light, graceful wings. Do only butterflies die in flames What about those devoured by the flames within them.

A clear lesson in this tragedy is that one point person tends to be more effective than many point persons, ... We need to conduct oversight before the fact, not after the fact when it is too late to undo mistakes.

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

The Cultural Revolution brought tragedy to my family. My son is now 17. When I've brought him here, I tell him of the tragedy.

Myself and Kelvin both had stunt doubles. And Charlie Kemp who plays Max had a dummy. They had shots of us driving the cars but at a safe distance from each other. And then the crash ends in tragedy, which is very exciting.

When the tragedy first happened, I wished there was a way I could go there and help.

Oregon has stood by ready to help at any time our fellow citizens affected by this terrible tragedy,

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

The fact that she Reed took this tragedy and turned it into something positive helped her cope with the tragedy. We see that a lot.

I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has to cry-even if it's a writer, 20 years later.

Our hearts and deepest sympathies go out to the families affected by this tragedy. We are stunned by this senseless act of violence, which has taken a great man and friend of our family.

The tragedy of Katrina wasn't the failure to predict the track or to predict the intensity of the storm. The tragedy was in preparing people and in particular predicting human behavior.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Anyone that would politicize this issue, with the tragedy that's confronting the people of the West, virtually all of them, would be outrageous,

The deaths of these five young men is a tragedy, but hopefully will focus attention on this problem. These prison sentences should serve to deter persons who use the Internet to unlawfully distribute prescription and over-the-counter drugs. And parents must realize that the same Internet that provides educational opportunities for their children can also bring danger.

By 4 a.m., after no word came that they had missed the flight, school superintendent David Black chartered two buses to take relatives and friends on the four and a half hour trip to New York's Kennedy Airport. They were booked on that flight, ... It's a monumental tragedy.

It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.

These are people who are alienated and don't really identify with their fellow residents in any positive way. They feel the tragedy is an opportunity for them.

This is one of the best teams we've played. That team should be in the NCAA Tournament and it's a tragedy they're not.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Polls are a passive conduit, but when citizens are out going door-to-door, expressing serious commitment, getting thousands of signatures, and getting resolutions passed, it sends a direct message to members of Congress. It's very clearly illustrated by the Katrina tragedy. Local guard and reserves are supposed to serve their own communities and they weren't available because of Iraq. Equipment that could have been used to dig dirt for the levees was in Iraq.

They were three seniors with seven weeks left until graduation. What a tragedy.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

She is a very good family woman, for the housewife, for my family for my kids. I can't believe it. I cannot believe I lost my wife in this tragedy.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.