Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people,… — Georges Simenon
The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight. — Ai Weiwei
The most tragic moment of my life was the first show I ever designed for. I had been asked to make shoes for Ossie Clark's… — Manolo Blahnik
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth. — Taylor Caldwell
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan… — Janette Turner Hospital
With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of… — Eric Massa
Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly… — Salman Rushdie
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist… — Unknown Author
We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food. — Tristram Stuart
I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the… — Unknown Author
To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This… — Baldur von Schirach
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it… — Alfred Jodl
Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their hands, adorned with… — Wilma Mankiller
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep… — Ace Antonio Hall
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands… — Peter Greenaway
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which… — Peter Greenaway
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic. — Mike Rowe
Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice… — Dalai Lama
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic… — Albert Camus
How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with… — Marianne Williamson
I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk… — Brian Molko
Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism. — Gijs de Vries
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the… — Paul Tournier
Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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