Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in… — Ursula Hegi
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge… — C.S. Lewis
We are unusual and tragic and alive. — Dave Eggers
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There… — Simone de Beauvoir
So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit… — Daphne du Maurier
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. — Anais Nin
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too,… — Ann Brashares
Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line… — William Goldman
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of… — Robert Wright
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,… — Jean Cocteau
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.... — Dean Koontz
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the… — Louisa May Alcott
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to… — D. H. Lawrence
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that… — Don DeLillo
It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From… — Doris Lessing
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. — Jean-Paul Sartre
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to… — William Styron
Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you… — Regina Doman
There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't… — Hunter S. Thompson
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless… — Oscar Wilde
It's a tragic fact to die in an accident — Gabrielle Zevin
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching… — Alan Paton
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That… — Oscar Wilde

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