Cyril Tourneur Quotes

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

War not only teaches what man can be, but it teaches also what he must not be.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us