Tragic Quotes

Tragic Quote of the day

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

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

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

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

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

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.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

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 quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

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.

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

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.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

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

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

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

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.

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

[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

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

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.