Top 100 Quotes About Tragic
#1. All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#2. In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.
Harrison Scott Key
#3. Don't let any tragic event or any people pull you away from the path of peace. Be strong and attract others to your path toward peace.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.
Zoe Akins
#5. The most visible and often tragic sacrifice of proletarian socialism - not to mention internationalism - on the altar of nationalism, of course, has been by the states that proclaim themselves to be, or to aspire to become, socialist.
Andre Gunder Frank
#6. A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
#7. Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.
Jack Vance
#8. Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap.
Henry Miller
#10. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Toni Morrison
#11. Just trying to tell the truth about, you know, the struggle of - being alive is funny, it's just inherently tragic and also hilarious - in a fun way and in a sad way. That seems to connect with people.
Judd Apatow
#12. We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life's tragic beauty.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#13. Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.
Mason Cooley
#14. Moorcock's interlinked 'Eternal Champion' series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is 'Elric of Melnibone,' and the best book has to be 'Stormbringer.' And as for that other sword, Excalibur? Pah! Use it to spread your butter.
Neal Asher
#15. Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
Oscar Wilde
#16. I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.
James Gosling
#17. I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy and a tragic attitude toward tragedy - why I had become identified with the objects of my horror or compassion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#18. The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
Ida Tarbell
#19. The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
Piet Mondrian
#20. The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis
#21. Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
Walter Pater
#22. There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.
Mary Harron
#23. You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.
Michael Morpurgo
#24. The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.
Theodor Mommsen
#25. Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
Woody Allen
#27. I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#28. Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.
Imre Kertesz
#29. How tragic it will be if we don't each come to grips with our own personal potential and learn the role the Lord has in mind for us. How sad if we waste one more day with a lack of commitment and not meet the measure of our creation.
Glenn L. Pace
#30. It was starting to get impatient. A hedgehog hopping irritably on its hind legs is a tragic sight.
T. Kingfisher
#31. I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.
Kathleen Hanna
#32. Herein lies one of the most tragic elements to emerge from my research: that every black parent of a teenage child I spoke to had factored in the possibility that this might happen to their kid. Indeed,
Gary Younge
#34. 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
#35. I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.
Charlie Day
#36. And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.
Robert Mueller
#37. It's not even a comfort when he's kind about it either, because in a way I don't want him to be. I want him to tell me that I'm no good, and that maybe I should get out of the car and walk in the rain like the tragic heroine of some melodramatic novel.
Charlotte Stein
#38. I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.
Ruth Rendell
#39. It was kind of tragic, I reflected, that we all spent our lives working but never really got good at our work, or even finished it.
Hope Jahren
#40. You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
Elaine Stritch
#41. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
George Eliot
#42. Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger; would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided; sicknesses healed.... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally over every day if we are open.
Steve Goodier
#43. In the end, after/before two tragic deaths, that accursed rag doll had an ear-to-ear smile on its face.
Troy McCombs
#44. Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident
Shannon Hale
#45. Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.
Marianne Williamson
#46. That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and
in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love
you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.
Ursula Hegi
#47. I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.
James Langevin
#48. I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!
Bayard Taylor
#49. You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making to much noise in restaurants and clubs and winebars. 'Look at me! I'm not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!' Tragic. I'm glad I learned to stay home and sulk.
Nick Hornby
#50. In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.
Donna Tartt
#51. My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.
Sri Chinmoy
#52. Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.
Eric Holder
#53. I was too busy wallowing in pain and bitterness. Too busy being tragic.
Joe Abercrombie
#54. It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.
Kedar Joshi
#55. I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
Richard Schiff
#56. The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
Vladimir Putin
#57. FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.
Beverly Donofrio
#58. The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.
George Steiner
#59. The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.
V.S. Pritchett
#60. The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Ross Macdonald
#61. What people are suffering is their freedom. That's why it is so tragic. If
Jaggi Vasudev
#62. Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the 1970s, and I recall the poster. But there are times when war is not only a tragic and unavoidable necessity, but also good for children and other living things.
Dan Savage
#63. When you're grieving, the times you're happy are so much more tragic than the times that you aren't. Because being happy feels fake and it feels temporary and it feels meaningless. And hating being happy is a shitty way to live.
Hannah Moskowitz
#64. Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
Arlen Specter
#65. Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic.
Chloe Thurlow
#66. I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder
#67. Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We've gotten through. We're still here.
Willie Nelson
#68. Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.
Dalai Lama
#69. If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.
Norman Mailer
#70. We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#71. The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Dawn Powell
#72. I'm attracted to those tragic, brooding boys in the novels, and I should learn to separate reality from fiction.
Jo Raven
#73. Oh, the power of the delete. It felt fabulous. I wished I could go around deleting like crazy. I'd delete suspicious spots on X-rays and malls at Christmas, car troubles and tragic events in history, the world's and my own.
Deb Caletti
#74. This thing has been studied to death by Republicans and Democrats: several committees, including in Congress, that have all said, 'Yes, of course what happened was tragic, but Secretary Clinton was not in any way at fault,' and what you have here with these e-mails is basically a witch hunt.
Julian Castro
#75. What a journey ... what a day ... what madness, so much worse than tragic! What to do except dance, dance, only dance ...
Abraham Verghese
#76. After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Lionel Trilling
#77. Y'all probably watched a lot of television."
"We didn't have TV."
"Nintendo, then?"
He shook his head.
"Fantasy football? Xbox?" I frowned. "Please tell me you had Angry Birds."
"We had a library," he said, "and a few educational magazines."
"Huh. Well, that's just tragic.
Cecily White
#78. Life. There it was. In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life, and those of us who'd been lucky enough to survive opened our arms wide and embraced it.
Sara Gruen
#79. Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
Leslie Easterbrook
#80. I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.
Roxy Writer
#81. To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero; panache is therefore a timid heroism, like the smile with which one excuses one's superiority.
Edmond Rostand
#83. I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
John Burnside
#84. This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter
Tom Robbins
#85. Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.
Charlotte Rampling
#86. There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'
There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
Simone De Beauvoir
#87. My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?
Mike Tyson
#88. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time
Studs Terkel
#89. I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.
Patricia Goldbach
#91. I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
Louise Penny
#92. The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I do stand-up, nothing I talk about is funny. Everything is really sad and tragic and then I make it funny.
Chris Rock
#93. To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.
Elaine Dundy
#94. There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.
Lynn Viehl
#95. On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.
V.S. Naipaul
#96. It is a tragic fact that the vast majority of Christians today are living a sub-normal Christian life.
Billy Graham
#97. Not that it would have diminished the gravity of what had occurred. But bomb was different. A bomb meant not only tragic incident, but an intent to kill. Disasters were scary, all right. Evil combined with disasters was terrifying.
Elif Shafak
#98. Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
Enele Sopoaga
#99. Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
Chuck Palahniuk
#100. The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.
Michel Houellebecq
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