Quotes About Tragic Flaws

#1. Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

Joe Madureira

#2. Life's still stupid but we got free of story out here under the beeches and the Big Dipper. We had enough of it, of things happening one after another and no end in sight. Of reversals and falling in love and tragic flaws, and by God if I see another motif in my business I will shoot it dead.

Catherynne M Valente

#3. If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Gautama Buddha

#4. There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'

Aleksey Igudesman

#5. People think that human beings have gotten worse, that because of the pressures that modern society puts on us, we've gotten worse, and we've gotten capable of doing more terrible things. I don't know if I necessarily think that that's true.

Thomas Gibson

#6. At thirteen, I thought more about my acne than I did about God or world peace. At thirteen, many girls spend more time in front of a mirror than they do on their studies. Small flaws become obsessions. Bad hair can ruin a day. A broken fingernail can feel tragic.

Mary Pipher

#7. Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity (RDMCC) is a registered charity no. 1137409. The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (RDMSC) is a registered charity no. 1085853. The Roald Dahl Charitable

Roald Dahl

#8. A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

Jacqueline Susann

#9. I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

Mark Twain

#10. There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

Malala Yousafzai

#11. If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

Tom Peters

#12. How could I tell you about it? It was a dream. It didn't make any fucking sense, man. But I do remember it.

Denis Johnson

#13. I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.

Cammie McGovern

#14. As Emile Leger said when he left his mansion in Montreal to go live in a leper colony in Africa, The time for talking is over.

Brennan Manning

#15. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Albert Camus

#16. Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Thomas Bangalter

#17. When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.

Don Pendleton

#18. That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation.

Don DeLillo