Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

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
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than… — Eddie Rickenbacker
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind,… — Jane Addams
It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is… — William Osler
Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston. — Ben Affleck
He's the best of us. The best of our best, the best that each of us will ever build or ever love. So pray for… — John Steakley
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last… — Ayn Rand
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with… — James Hansen
For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof.… — Gillian Flynn
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most. — Erich Fromm
Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic! — Joseph Bayly
A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if… — Emmet Fox
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched. — Erika Slezak
The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society… — Barack Obama
It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express… — Soren Kierkegaard

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