Terrible Tragedy Quotes

#1. Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

Michael Bloomberg

#2. I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Chuck Close

#3. This terrible tragedy ... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity.

Vladimir Putin

#4. If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

Michael Bloomberg

#5. I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

William R. Ferris

#6. My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and, now it's public so I can say, two CIA operatives.

Hillary Clinton

#7. There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

Dick Cheney

#8. I love you, Chansey Rose Leclaire and it is a terrible tragedy that you will never know how much because I could never be the same after loving you. - Curry from Blood of Anteros

Georgia Cates

#9. September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Vernon Jordan

#10. People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

Amy Tan

#11. It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

Rupert Brooke

#12. We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

Helen Clark

#13. In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.

Harrison Scott Key

#14. We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

Ron Kovic

#15. A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

Ron Rash

#16. What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.

Dora Russell

#17. Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

Barry B. Powell

#18. ..I marvelled at the intense beauty of this human relationship that was born out of so much love and was destined, perhaps inevitably, to end in a tragedy of such terrible proportions.

Arun Joshi

#19. Sometimes I have a terrible suspicion that the whole tragedy, from first to last, has no meaning.

Sarah Gainham

#20. To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible.

Thomas Merton

#21. It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

John Dyer

#22. Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.

Jim McKay

#23. It's a terrible thing to outlive your child, a tragedy I wish upon no one.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.

Oscar Wilde

#25. It's a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.

Beatrice Sparks

#26. 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 field of that enormous, unanswerable question.

Michael Shaara

#27. An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What's a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.

Diane Samuels

#28. Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Bryant H. McGill

#29. France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States ... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand by the American people. We express our friendship and solidarity in this tragedy.

Jacques Chirac

#30. Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.

Janet Maslin

#31. That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu

Ruth Reichl

#32. What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.

Rodman Philbrick

#33. At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

Anna Maria Chavez