Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity… — Bertrand Russell
With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the… — Carl Jung
You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning… — Thomas Hardy
And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable. — Suzanne Collins
I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense… — Tim Gunn
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. — George Bernard Shaw
The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate. — William Goldman
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world. — Karl Lagerfeld
He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features,… — Cassandra Clare
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your… — Maya Angelou
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged… — Ralph Ellison
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead,… — Jack Kerouac
I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was taped… — Kelley Armstrong
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we… — Amy Carmichael
I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless… — Tina Fey
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. — Irvin D. Yalom
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals — Terry Pratchett
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness,… — R. D. Laing
I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily… — Alain de Botton
Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them… — Eleanor Roosevelt
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. — Gertrude Stein
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed,… — Tobias Wolff
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest… — Frank Zappa
But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life… — Katherine Applegate

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