Tragic Sense Quotes

#1. In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

Constance Rourke

#2. The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

Edward Abbey

#3. Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

Sam Keen

#5. He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history
the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

Don DeLillo

#6. A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.

Taika Waititi

#7. So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW, and

Elizabeth Wein

#8. The literature of imaginatiion, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

Tom Shales

#10. I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.

Mel Brooks

#11. Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

Cornel West

#12. Why is free will wasted on a creature who has infinite choices but pretends there are only one or two?

Steve Toltz

#13. History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Rick Perlstein

#14. If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.

Rachael Taylor

#15. Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a mask: the deity that spoke through him was neither Dionysus nor Apollo, but an altogether newborn demon, called Socrates.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. And if you say 'I love you,' and you mean it, then love makes up for a whole lifetime of mistakes. That's some kind of magic.

Natalie Lloyd

#17. I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.

Tim Gunn

#18. and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law." "And is

Xenophon

#19. The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

Gerald Vizenor

#20. I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.

Oprah Winfrey

#21. Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

Gwenn Wright

#22. I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing
his sense of personal dignity.

Arthur Miller

#23. To live out God's plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself ... and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.

Elizabeth George

#24. It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.

Abby Johnson

#25. Gwen didn't have to ask about the Fall. It happened to all old people, the Fall. They fell and then everything changed[...]They fell and never quite got up again.

Daniel Handler

#26. What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

Corey Stoll

#28. I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.

G.K. Chesterton

#29. Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Erich Fromm

#31. That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Gore Vidal

#32. 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

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

Dean Koontz

#34. 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