Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy… — George Orwell
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. — David Hyde Pierce
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened… — Terry Pratchett
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through… — Dawn Powell
The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If… — Chris Pratt
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think… — Vladimir Putin
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. — Vladimir Putin
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness… — Anna Deavere Smith
When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You… — Robert Smith
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is… — Arlen Specter
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process… — Twyla Tharp
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers… — James Thurber
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care… — Mike Tyson
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic. — Eddie Vedder
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. — Rufus Wainwright
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and… — Al Yankovic
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know,… — Alan Moore
Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way. — Jimmy Buffett
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness.… — David Foster Wallace
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be… — Frantz Fanon
Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the… — Thomas Wolfe
This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter — Tom Robbins
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude.… — Katharine Hepburn

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