Top 1200 Tragic Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end

There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

I love the tragic side. I don't do 'happy' onstage. I like the dark, the disturbed.

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

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

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

No one wants to stop paying football - it's just that your body can't. That's tragic.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

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

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

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

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

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

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden.

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.

The tragic conditions at detention facilities are the result of an intense surge in migration across the border.

Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.

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

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

This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

If you ruin the main course of a dinner party, it ain't all that tragic. Just laugh!

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.

Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.