Tragic Quotes
732 quotes by 610 authors
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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…
— James A. Baldwin
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
— John Banville
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
— Henry Adams
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind…
— Roseanne Barr
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between…
— Dave Barry
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
— Samuel Beckett
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There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
— Kenneth Branagh
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one,…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
— Lois Capps
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming…
— Dale Carnegie
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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring…
— John Cleese
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I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but…
— Tori Amos
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I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
— Tori Amos
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Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my…
— Amedeo Modigliani
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A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
— Kathy Mattea
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The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up one morning and…
— Ian Wooldridge
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Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is…
— John C. Wright
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For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any…
— Adolf Hitler
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