Top 1200 Tragic Endings Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in his head. But it turned out that trying to appear tragic in Incontinence, Indiana, was redundant, and his mother kept shouting at him and making him forget his rhymes. "Tommy, if you keep grinding your teeth like that, they'll wear away and you'll have to have dentures like Aunt Ester." Tommy only wished his beard was as heavy as Aunt Ester's---then he could stare out over the moors while he stroked it pensively.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.

For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

Mirror sighed. "I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen.

The endings to me are the key moment in 'Weekend' and '45 Years.' I know how I want my gut to feel at the ending. Even if I can't articulate in words what that feeling is, I'm trying to find ways to get there.

The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.

People let me into their lives, whether it's a tragic or victorious circumstance.

I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there's a multitude of different endings.

I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".

I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

Orissa is cursed by the two tragic extremes of drought and famine.

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

What makes something tragic is that it could've been averted at multiple points.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.

The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.

Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don't know what's going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

I don't think 'Shotgon Stories' or 'Take Shelter' have hopeless endings. I think there's hope in both those films, no matter how hard you have to search for it. It's there.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

Do you like foreign films?” “With subtitles?” “Yes.” “I hate those types of films.” “Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “ “No happy endings.

With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that.

Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things are a little more fluid than that.

I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

When I was a young boy, those 'Rocky' movies were my favorite, especially the wild and exciting endings. I loved those films; they inspired me to want to become a fighter.

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

Endings are always tough, but I believe when something ends, there are new beginnings, new opportunities and new things to be excited for, too.