Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody… — Frederick Lenz
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. — Charlotte Rampling
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural… — Stephanie Mills
Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system… — John Wayne
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world. — Harvey Cox
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. — Wassily Kandinsky
For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek — Michael Gove
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring… — Asger Jorn
There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds of… — Dean Stockwell
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else... — Eric Maisel
The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building… — Craig Scott
Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be… — Darrell Bock
By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision. It is tragic that he did not… — Kofi Annan
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought… — Gerald R. Ford
Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world… — Gerald R. Ford
I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house… — Joyce Kilmer
Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good,… — Amy Dickinson
I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together.… — Charlie Day
The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often… — Frantz Fanon
Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension — Jacques Lacan
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. — Joseph Conrad
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. — Jamie Foxx
I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be… — Kesha
I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose [a child]… — Kim Basinger

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