Quotes about Tragedy

What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes

heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this within his music in perfect harmony. This harmony is not a matter of "balance" or "indifference" — it is a glorious upsetting of the balance, a turning in which the light rises and the shadows fall, in which the Yes rings louder than the ever-present

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory — in their tragedy and in their salvation.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

One rabbi who survived the camp summed it up well when he said that at Auschwitz it was as though there existed a world in which all the Ten Commandments were reversed. Mankind had never seen such a hell.

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.