Tragic Quotes

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

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.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and that's what she's fighting against.

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

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.

Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.

My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to him. I mean he is ultimately a pure-heart.

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.

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.

I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.