Tragic Quotes · Page 11

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Paul Auster

“Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Perry Brass

Broadcaster: Rap is Dead Black people be like R.I.P They just killed a thug

— Giavonna Stayturntup Gillespie

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

— Tcheky Karyo

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

— Quentin Crisp

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“He didn't believe in himself. I have to say - with all this tragedy vocabulary going around - that I can see…

— Elizabeth LaBan

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

— Horace

Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.

— Kirby Page

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

— Earl Warren

I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

— Dave Wakeling

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

— Rufus Wainwright

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

— Anne Fortier

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic,…

— Rob Bell

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the…

— William Osler

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me.…

— Story Musgrave

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on…

— Jenna Fischer

Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July…

— Ala Bashir

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the…

— Willa Cather

My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time…

— Zoe Wanamaker

“{ On the death of Hale's esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank . Burbank was much beloved by the population unil…

— Wilbur Hale

I think what history will show is that one of the most tragic results of the war in Iraq will be that…

— Michael Scheuer

Congratulations," he said, his voice dry. "You finally managed to find a woman as tragically noble as yourself. I didn't think one…

— Ilona Andrews

I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things…

— Drew Barrymore

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you…

— Carl Jung

It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The…

— Dan Chiasson

“Yet despite...accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat--to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants…

— Jerry Z. Muller

Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“To desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic.”

— Eric G. Wilson

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

— Jimmy Buffett

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

— Robert Wyatt

That sorrow is tragic and kills you exact, when love still alive and hope is dead.

— Senoraroy

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

— Charles M. Schulz

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

— Thom Filicia

I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough…

— Eddie Vedder

“Kidnapped by a vampire, death by a squid. How tragic.”

— Abigail Gibbs