Anne Carson Quotes

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.

Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

God made nightButMan made darkness.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.

What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

What destruction have I been blessed by?

The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.