Tragic Quotes
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.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.
From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.
Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
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.
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.
It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.
We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.
For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
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.
And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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 woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
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.