Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia. — Napoleon Hill
I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines, — Rand Paul
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real. — Billy Graham
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching… — Henry Ford
Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is. — Max Lucado
The Christian family is under attack on all fronts. Christian marriages are disintegrating at an alarming rate. Children are not receiving the proper training and… — Jim George
I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night… — Ronald Reagan
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances. — Toni Morrison
If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play — Tupac Shakur
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often… — C.S. Lewis
Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story.… — Sarah Jio
Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful. — Taylor Swift
There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got… — Barack Obama
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just… — John Chancellor
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a… — Terry Zwigoff
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted. — Frederick Leboyer
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. — Arthur Koestler
The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead… — Milton Friedman
Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon. — Walid Jumblatt
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for,… — Markus Wolf
It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him. — Paul Lazarsfeld
I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake. — Collin Peterson
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it,… — N.D. Wilson

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