Tragic Event Quotes

#1. An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It's what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it - potentially - a tragic situation.

You have to have been exposed to this, at least once, to understand it.

Jacques Yonnet

#2. Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.

Bob Beauprez

#3. I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.

Michael Strahan

#5. You are not judged by your success, but rather, how you respond to your failures.

T.W. Brown

#6. My religion lies in my composition.

John Philip Sousa

#7. Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.

Ala Bashir

#8. I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.

Craig Nicholls

#9. Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips and fingertips.

Dawson Trotman

#10. There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

Claes Oldenburg

#11. Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

Charlotte Rampling

#12. I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.

Summer Phoenix

#13. Art is important for it commemorates the seasons of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul's journey. Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one's own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us. As

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#14. Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

Michael Moore

#15. My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees' nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery.

Marisha Pessl

#17. Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'

Al Yankovic

#18. This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

Jerry Costello

#19. Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Harvey MacKay

#20. Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

Olive Schreiner

#21. Don't let any tragic event or any people pull you away from the path of peace. Be strong and attract others to your path toward peace.

Debasish Mridha