Quotes About Tragic Fate

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person
it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life ... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

Ivan Turgenev

#5. I have brought you a hero's fate, and a hero's fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.

Rick Riordan

#6. The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.

Erich Fromm

#7. What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

Wade Davis

#8. To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.

Baldur Von Schirach

#9. Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana

#10. Seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace frees us to be for others all we need to be.

Michael Card

#11. You should have known
The price of evil
And it hurts to know that you belong here
Yeah
No one to call
Everybody to fear
Your tragic fate is looking so clear
Yeah
Oooooooh
It's your fucking nightmare
-Nightmare

Avenged Sevenfold

#12. To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

Mary Jo Bang

#13. While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

Victor Koo

#14. I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

Walther Funk

#15. Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

Robert Cormier

#16. The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

Marilynne Robinson

#19. Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Michael Moore

#20. Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

Anthon St. Maarten

#21. Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.

Imre Kertesz