Quotes About Tragicomedy

#1. Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

Dagobert D. Runes

#2. Life is such a tragicomedy.

Oleg Cassini

#3. 'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does reference a lot of the post-war period.

Martin Donovan

#4. Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Lawrence Wright

#5. The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.

Alice Morse Earle

#6. In America, the glass is neither full nor empty. It is buy one, get one free.

Ali Sheikh

#7. Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Peter Kline

#8. Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.

Eudora Welty

#9. Hamm: What's he doing?
(CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)
Clov: He's crying.
(He closes lid, straightens up)
Hamm: Then he's living.

Samuel Beckett

#10. It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

Ivan Turgenev

#11. My goal is not to be perfect or normal. My goal is to be WHOLE.

S.A. Molteni

#12. Acting with discipline requires you to know your true nature and, having come to know it, to bring it under control.

Cameron Dokey

#13. If you go by other people's opinions or predictions,
you'll just end up talking yourself out of something.
If you're running down the track of life thinking that
it's impossible to break life's records,
those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet.

Carl Lewis

#14. The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?
-Clary, pg.266-

Cassandra Clare

#15. A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

Publilius Syrus

#16. I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

Chuck Schumer

#17. People say, 'My phone sucks.' No, it doesn't! The shittiest cellphone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks. Around the phone.

Louis C.K.

#18. I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

James Russell Lowell

#19. About President Bush's stand against condoms, condoms will not protect you from AIDS . So to just throw a bunch of condoms over to Africa and say, here, we're helping you with AIDS, is just going to further the spread of AIDS over there.

Christine O'Donnell