Top 1200 Tragic Quotes & Sayings - Page 6
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.
I am not someone who deserves to be dissected and analyzed like some tragic example of everything that can possibly go wrong for a professional athlete.
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, ? the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.
Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from the tragic to the absurd.
I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.
It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.
Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.
I've reached the age of 32 with little wisdom, I'm afraid. It's tragic. I still have to turn to my mum and dad for every decision I make in life.
I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.
We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled.
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.
I knew Charlie Parker, and he gave us such a gift with his music. He put so much into so little space, and it was tragic that he died so young.
I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.
'Downtown Love.' I made that with one of my homies in New Orleans. The story is tragic, and the song is emotional. It's my favorite. I'm most proud of that; it's such a creative piece.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life... Life should be celebrated!
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic - that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!
The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.
Somebody said that I'm the worst player in the NBA, and my last name should not be Dragic, but 'Tragic.' Every time I was in a practice court, I had this in my mind.
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.
I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
There's something about the girls and the boys who just live for the moment and don't think a second beyond their needs and the here and now that, ultimately, is pretty tragic.
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.
Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.
We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.
I see this beautiful and tragic world, and I do my best to describe it, because it's been crushing to me since I was a kid. It seems to be how I connect.
Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.
