Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once. — Edward Abbey
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy. — Edward Abbey
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand… — Carl Jung
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. — Mark Rothko
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already… — Saul Bellow
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. — Emile M. Cioran
Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to… — William Styron
There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves. — Jack Handey
It's not tragic to die doing something you love. — Mark Foo
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be… — Michael Bloomberg
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,… — Alexander Pope
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. — Socrates
How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools,… — Mike Mason
Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old… — Samuel Roth
It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but for the sake… — Irene Khan
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes. — Jean-Paul Marat
It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in… — Abby Johnson
It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get… — David Millar
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and… — Pope John Paul II
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things… — Stanley Kubrick

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