Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world. — Costa-Gavras
The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint… — T.H. White
It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him. — Jack Hyles
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that… — Unknown Author
There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course. — Watchman Nee
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of… — Dominic Chianese
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end — Leon Gambetta
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. — Anne Rice
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. — Dale Carnegie
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. — Elaine Stritch
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human… — Mark Twain
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its… — Ray Kurzweil
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one. — Jonathan Ive
Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and… — Winston Churchill
Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our… — Beverly Johnson
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with… — C.D. Payne
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic… — Joshua L. Liebman
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great… — Martin Luther

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