Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut… — Kurt Vonnegut
I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things off. I have… — Drew Barrymore
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. — Oscar Wilde
There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would… — Oscar Wilde
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the… — Carlos Fuentes
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation… — Marilyn Monroe
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter. — John Masefield
She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning… — Lisa Genova
The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a… — Joanne Harris
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing… — Carl Jung
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a… — John Wyndham
Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the… — Milan Kundera
There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance. — Lynn Viehl
Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on… — John Steinbeck
Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing… — Brian Jacques
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. — Oscar Wilde
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane — Hope Edelman
I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that… — Rudolfo Anaya
Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part… — John Steinbeck
She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and… — W. Somerset Maugham

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