Top 1200 Tragic Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.
[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them.
The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.
Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
When a person finally has the courage to say, 'This is who I am,' and society is not there to welcome them with open arms, it is so tragic.
A tragic car accident put me in a wheelchair and dashed my hopes and dreams for the future.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.
Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident
I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.
Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.
Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
If we are to learn anything from the tragic death of Michael Brown, we must first acknowledge that we have a race issue we are not addressing.
There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.
The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.
No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.
One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented
The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.
If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.
I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
I'm not on Twitter because I'm worried I'd be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who's supposed to be funny.
What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.
John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
