Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and… — Daniel Handler
I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us,… — Taylor Swift
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning… — Isadora Duncan
We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that… — Maggie Stiefvater
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime. — Victor Hugo
I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online. — Sophie Kinsella
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic –… — P.D. James
No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic. — Michael Thomas Ford
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man. — Anne Fortier
I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I do wish… — Cassandra Clare
It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within,… — David Foster Wallace
A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom. — Donald Ray Pollock
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. — Lawrence Durrell
But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own… — Isaac Marion
When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity… — Anne Rice
George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and, in a theatrical… — Ilona Andrews
To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility… — Malcolm Lowry
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. — Ayn Rand
Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it… — Buster Keaton
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No… — Daisaku Ikeda
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,'… — Oliver Sacks
Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was… — Terry Pratchett

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