Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal.… — Louise Rennison
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana
Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming… — J R Ward
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly… — Henry Beston
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident — Shannon Hale
You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And… — Philip Roth
How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then,… — Ann Brashares
Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than… — Carrie Fisher
... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life. — Lisa Genova
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception. — Jeanette Winterson
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of… — Robert A. Heinlein
Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic… — Georgette Heyer
Maybe one of the monsters ate him," Daphne whimpered. "That would be awesome," Puck said. Sabrina flashed him an angry look. "Awesome in a terrible,… — Michael Buckley
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation. — Chuck Palahniuk
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is… — Huston Smith
Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a… — Sara Zarr
Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed. — Elie Wiesel
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest… — Edward Carpenter
When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a… — Cecelia Ahern
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as… — Simone de Beauvoir
My friend died. (Astrid) Died how? (Zarek) Mmm, he had parvo. (Astrid) Isn’t that a dog’s disease? (Zarek) Yes. It was tragic. (Astrid) Hey! I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic… — Mary MacLane
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of… — Oscar Wilde
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In… — Jon Krakauer

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