Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century. — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
“But Allison always finished what she started. It was both a saving grace and a tragic flaw.” — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough. — David Robinson Copy Share Image
It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him. — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way,… — Valentino Rossi Copy Share Image
“Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.” — Joshua Foa Dienstag Copy Share Image
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be… — Paul Lazarsfeld Copy Share Image
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don't have to get injured, and I'm… — Titus Welliver Copy Share Image
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Something is fundamentally amiss when you refer to a person as illegal. Bottom line. That's why we so easily talk about this… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image