Tragic Quotes

“Life can be more human and less tragic”

— Tracy Sillato

“Life is tragic so be safe”

— Anonymous

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

— Eddie Vedder

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

— Richard Engel

“We're tragic actors in a world of comedy.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“It was an age of tragic mistakes.”

— Darren Shan

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

— Quentin Crisp

“The tragic fact is that the maps of the world are drawn in blood.”

— George Jonas

I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.

— Andrew Gurland

“She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think I am fascinated with slightly tragic characters.

— Janhvi Kapoor

For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

— Christian Camargo

What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

— Helen Keller

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

— Anais Nin

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge…

— David Duchovny

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

— Anonymous

“I wish it didn’t have to hurt you,” she says. “Do you?” “Of course. Believe me, Cassio. I never wanted to be…

— Kendare Blake

“For a moment, Blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. “I would rather you hate me…

— Tanya kaley

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one…

— Ace Antonio Hall

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that…

— Susan George

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are…

— Anonymous

We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive…

— Buzz Aldrin

Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls,…

— James Howard Kunstler

It's easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record…

— Charles Duhigg

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .…

— Anonymous

I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember…

— Ronald Reagan

A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor…

— Taika Waititi

Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and…

— Janette Turner Hospital

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does…

— Blanche Lincoln

But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most…

— Katherine Applegate

Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They…

— William J. Brennan

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he…

— Ernst Junger

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get…

— Tracy Letts

The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,…

— A. C. Bradley

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic…

— Carlos Fuentes

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic…

— Jane Addams

Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best…

— Aristotle