Tragic Quotes
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.
It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life... Life should be celebrated!
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
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.
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.
I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
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.
All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.
We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.
Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
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.
Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
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.