Quotes About Tragic

#1. Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.

Hilda Solis

#2. The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.

Liz Marshall

#3. The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.

Tullian Tchividjian

#4. It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands.

Pepe Eliaschev

#5. Sad hotels existed everywhere, to be sure, but the Dolphin was in a class of its own. The Dolphin Hotel was conceptually sorry. The Dolphin Hotel was tragic.

Haruki Murakami

#6. When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

Julia Alvarez

#7. What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

George Pierce Baker

#8. No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

Josiah Royce

#9. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna's hands, desirable by Peeta's confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

Suzanne Collins

#10. He was arguably the best-qualified FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover; he thought Clinton was the most talented politician since Richard Nixon. That made their mutual contempt all the more tragic. It undermined the FBI and ultimately damaged the United States.

Tim Weiner

#11. Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. Life is magical. If life had no magic, it would be tragic.

Debasish Mridha

#13. It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

Chris Kyle

#14. The tragic fact is that the maps of the world are drawn in blood.

George Jonas

#15. History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

Daisaku Ikeda

#16. We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

Ron Lewis

#17. The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone.

Faraaz Kazi

#18. The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.

Gever Tulley

#19. know that neither to have the child nor not to have the child is without the possibility of tragic consequences for everybody yet (b) be brave in knowing also that not even that can put us beyond the forgiving love of God.

Frederick Buechner

#20. Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

Wassily Kandinsky

#21. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

Karl Lagerfeld

#22. It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

Jimmy Carter

#23. Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation.

Peter Lee

#24. What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#25. As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

#26. In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

John Chancellor

#27. I worried too much about what others thought - I can tell you it's a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in the eye.

Jan Karon

#28. I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a
certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and
somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have
done.

Jack Ruby

#29. With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty
it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman

Huston Smith

#30. We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

Mark Rothko

#31. Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way.

Jimmy Buffett

#32. Your friend is convinced she is unlovable, unreachable. Depression can do that to a person. She thinks no one can understand her. She ignores all evidence to the contrary, and it has led her to make some very tragic decisions.

Sarah Fine

#33. We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

Tristram Stuart

#34. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

Edwin Markham

#35. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious.

Daniel Abraham

#36. The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

Bryant McGill

#37. Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.

Gerald R. Ford

#38. Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

Maxim Gorky

#39. Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

Jimmy Buffett

#40. Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic ...

Dean Koontz

#41. To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#42. What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?

Deborah Sampson

#43. As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.

Vito Fossella

#44. One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

#45. It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse and challenging roles will be remembered as some of the great performances by an Australian actor.

Kevin Rudd

#46. Mournier defined his own position as one of 'tragic optimism
' a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite the fact that the Absolute cannot be contained in history.

Robert Ellsberg

#47. He said he wants variety. The irony is that I wanted variety too. But I wanted variety in a solid, stable committed relationship where I would wake up each morning asking "What are we going to do today?" not asking "Who are you going to do today?

Aimee Lane

#48. Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Baltasar Gracian

#49. Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.

Yaroslav Trofimov

#50. It is not ... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

William Osler

#51. We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

Perry Brass

#52. To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

Tucker Carlson

#53. Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

W. Eugene Smith

#54. Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.

Woody Allen

#55. The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.

Ban Ki-moon

#56. Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds the embarrassingly, even tragically human. No Duchampian object is ever tragic. Many if not most of Guston's objects, even the most hilarious, are.

Ross Feld

#57. Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.

Beverly Johnson

#58. Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.

William, Saroyan

#59. At the end to death I must go,
Finishing a real tragic and funny show.

Mohit K. Misra

#60. This quality of Jewish folk music [- it can appear to be happy when it's tragic-] is close to my idea of what music should be. The should always be two layers in music.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#61. 9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

Richard Engel

#62. What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.

Harry Graf Kessler

#63. I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

Heather O'Neill

#64. Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

Bill Maher

#65. Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.

Linda S. Godfrey

#66. We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution. How amazing and yet tragic it is, I thought, the human instinct for

Shirin Ebadi

#67. It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.

Wilhelm Keitel

#68. Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

Henry Wriston

#69. It seemed bleakly ironic to me that someone who craved, deserved and had worked so hard to earn a tragic, early death appeared to be doomed to live forever.

Mishka Shubaly

#70. How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic. p 108

Abraham Verghese

#71. It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#72. What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Cecelia Ahern

#73. But Allison always finished what she started. It was both a saving grace and a tragic flaw.

Debra Ginsberg

#74. Maybe it's better to end things this way. Better to have a tragic and sudden end than to have a long, drawn-out one where we realize that we're just too different, and that love alone is not enough to bind us. I think all these things. I believe none of them.

Nicola Yoon

#75. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart.

Rudolfo Anaya

#76. The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

David Mamet

#77. When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.

Lynda Resnick

#78. 'Oh, gods,' said Holden, halfway into his tunic. 'I can't believe it's taken me five years to realize your one tragic flaw. You're a morning person. Stop being so chipper right now. At least until I've had my coffee.'

Maculategiraffe

#79. Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

Twyla Tharp

#80. Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

Napoleon Hill

#81. I was darker than he was. And I'm not just talking about our skin coloring. He told me I had a tragic vision of life. "That's why you like Spider-Man.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#82. There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

William Holden

#83. Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.

Peter Capaldi

#84. But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and Lucy had decided that they should triumph.

E. M. Forster

#85. In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#86. The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.

Valentino Rossi

#87. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Matthew Quick

#88. If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

Arthur Koestler

#89. The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.

Peter Blegvad

#90. We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.

Rachel Weisz

#91. I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#92. The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Florence King

#93. Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

Nate Silver

#94. When something is tragic you never really forget it.

Sophia Olson

#95. In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero's.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#96. There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious. On balance, I find much more to admire about humanity than to despise.

Daniel Abraham

#97. There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#98. It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#99. Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#100. We know the story of the Deluge from the Holy Scripture. Why did the first race of men come to such a tragic end? Because they had abandoned God and must die, guilty and innocent alike. They had only themselves to blame for their punishment. And it is the same today.

Wilm Hosenfeld