Top 1200 Tragic Endings Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things off. I have totally emotional days when I cry and get insecure. PMS weirded out, doomed and tragic. I mean, I'm definitely not just a lollipop, happy in the wind girl. I'm human just like everyone else, but I think that it would be tragic to be on your deathbed and think, 'I could've I should've.' That gets me out of bed everyday. I can't even last like an hour in bed in the morning. I have to get out there and live.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

It's not tragic to die doing something you love.

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

I always tend to tilt dark on an ending, because I feel like, especially with horror movies, those are the endings that don't evaporate. Those are the ones that stick with you.

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!

Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.

Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Humanity as a concept is neither comic nor tragic.

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.

I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

I reject the idea of myself as a tragic figure.

I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

I think I am fascinated with slightly tragic characters.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the death of bin Laden.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

I'm not clever enough to write. It's as basic and tragic as that.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

Claire Denis's 'Beau Travail' is one of Denis's greatest achievements. One of the most mysterious and beautiful endings in movies.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.