It's toe-tappingly tragic.

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

— Dale Carnegie

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface…

— Ivan Turgenev

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of…

— Anonymous

“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.”

— Anonymous

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

— Anais Nin

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change…

— Harold Ramis

Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the…

— A. C. Bradley

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

— D. H. Lawrence

“I have brought you a hero’s fate, and a hero’s fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.”

— Rick Riordan

“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

— Tucker Carlson

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

— Robin Leach

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr