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Historical Tragedy Quotes

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"It was estimated that more than 800 Chinese civilians were also killed that day in what would now likely be called a tragic friendly fire incident."
"The most tragic facts about the Titanic is that there weren’t enough lifeboats for all the people on board."
"Millions were outright murdered, but millions more died of starvation, exhaustion, and disease."
"Remember those six million souls that were lost."
"The assassination of John F. Kennedy remains one of the most tragic and shocking events in American history."
"The Devil's Hole, also often called the Cave of Evil Spirits, is believed to be haunted by the souls of those who died in a massacre."
"Love conquers all, even in the face of such evil and tragedy."
"In this Hamburg district, 22 children were killed."
"Even though we're separated by three or four hundred years, you know, this was still a large amount of innocent people who were murdered."
"The only thing left to do is pay tribute to Jonesy's victims and hope that they managed to find some peace in the end..."
"The loss of the Library is without a doubt a tragedy for humanity."
"The tragedy of Herculaneum is impossible to ignore."
"The Titanic versus the Titan: How a novel eerily predicted the sinking of the RMS Titanic 14 years before the tragedy, with striking similarities between fiction and reality."
"The event's reputation for danger and tragedy was not unfounded."
"More than 6,000 indigenous children died in residential schools in Canada."
"Channy Wenjack tried to escape the horrors of the residential school he attended in Kenora, Ontario."
"How could a tragedy of this magnitude occur just two years after the cataclysmic loss of the RMS Titanic?"
"The sinking of the Titanic is one of those disasters that just as a human being it's hard to get your mind around the scope of."
"Never did so many husbands and wives die together, never did so many parents carry their children with them to the grave."
"100 million people perished under communist dictators in the last century." - Lauren Southern
"The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a moment in history that will remain in infamy forever."
"More than 1,500 died in what remains one of the most tragic and costly maritime disasters ever."
"I will believe to my last breath that this attempt at dishonouring us will one day dishonour its creators, and that in this global tragedy it is not our honour that has been taken but theirs."
"In two years, the Arawak population was cut in half, with 125,000 people being murdered, starved to death or committing suicide."
"Mary Queen of Scots, her story is full of tragedy, romance, betrayal, loss, and heartbreak."
"Hundreds were now dying every day, thousands were shut up waiting to die."
"The destruction of a culture's autonomy and heritage, while common historically, is always tragic."
"The Fatal Vespers: A contemporary pamphleteer described the scene: 'What a chaos!'"
"Thalidomide: what was first advertised as the most versatile drug soon became a heartbreaking scandal."
"Poland lost the highest percentage of any population in the war with 1/5th of Polish citizens dying in combat or in Mass executions."
"The sheer scale of the human loss experienced by the builders of the Hoosick tunnel earned it a haunting nickname: the bloody pit."
"The remains of more than a quarter-million Warsaw Jews were among the ashes and bones that Grossman found at Treblinka."
"...six million jewish people were killed in the holocaust just how [ __ ] is that though yeah it's [ __ ] up..."
"It's a cruel life, isn't it? Back in Australia, I'll give you one: Liverpool, the 15th of April 1989, the Hillsborough disaster, one of the greatest tragedies in sporting history."
"It's a truly horrific part of the war that often gets overlooked so it makes Tommy's fate even more tragic, since he single-handedly saves all of time just to be executed for being a supposed coward."
"Up to 2 million people died just two years after the conclusion of the Second World War."
"We should never forget the horrible tragedies and the price that people had to pay."
"I cannot believe that this place had had such horrible and sorrowful history."
"By some estimates, it killed over 50 million people, which was about 60% of the entire continent's population at the time."
"At 2:10 PM, a large explosion occurred on Lusitania's starboard side, close to the bridge."
"It was incredibly moving and deeply sad and tragic that humans could do this to other humans."
"The Trail of Tears followed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, as I said, it resulted in thousands of people needlessly suffering from exposure, disease, and starvation."
"The decimation of their population by foreign diseases, destruction of natural habitat... along with the slow genocide on all fronts from the invading Americans and the government behind them is one of the low points in American history."
"The Bengal famine had begun, the famine was a tragedy within a tragedy, an epidemic of hunger and disease that saw between two to three million people die."
"The oldest child sacrifice here was 14 years old, with the youngest being only five."