Top 1200 Tragic Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.
Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. The mortal no
Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.
The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented.
I'm such a homebody. It's actually quite tragic because, if I'm out for drinks, I'll constantly be thinking about when it's acceptable for me to leave.
It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the white.
The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.
I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation.
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
Losing Jane was tragic and I thought I'd never get married again, or have more children, or would even ever want to.
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse.
[Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.
It is tragic to lose someone close, but having that reminder to take advantage of every opportunity that life gives you.
It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
I don't think anybody, regardless of tragic circumstances, can expect to come to a congressional hearing and take it over with a series of interruptions.
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.
Anyone who is willing for an instant to credit the claims of astral influence is a walking demonstration of the tragic failure of science education.
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.
My cousin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and it's just a really tragic disease, and as of yet there is no cure, so I feel I want to get it as much publicity to do it as I can.
