Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for… — Olaf Stapledon
A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more… — Sergei Lukyanenko
There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have… — Neil Gaiman
Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders… — Kristin Cashore
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think… — Philip K. Dick
I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone… — Ilona Andrews
My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was… — Kim Harrison
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny… — Thomas Wolfe
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English. — Joe Hill
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by… — George Eliot
Congratulations," he said, his voice dry. "You finally managed to find a woman as tragically noble as yourself. I didn't think one existed." "I'm not… — Ilona Andrews
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast… — Edith Wharton
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable… — Neil Gaiman
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
What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time. — Cecelia Ahern
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic… — Eleanor Roosevelt
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Akri won't let me eat any of them nasty gods. What's the world coming to when a demon gots to beg for tidbits...not eve a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most… — Mitch Albom
There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There… — Jane Goodall
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are… — Isabel Allende
Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated… — Christopher Hitchens
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't… — Melinda Gates
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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