Tragic Quotes

732 Tragic quotes by 587 unique authors

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there… — Patsy Kensit
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative Â– destroying… — Kurt Lewin
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces… — Walter Pater
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the… — Stanislaw Lem
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak,… — Franz Liszt
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He… — Robert McNamara
I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that… — Madonna Ciccone
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. — C.S. Lewis
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction… — Walter Lippmann
There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one. — Mitch Daniels
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. — Ross Macdonald
Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs — Marshall B. Rosenberg
All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. — Edward Gibbon
Child abuse is still sanctioned â€” indeed, held in high regard â€” in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is… — Alice Miller
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no… — Thabo Mbeki
I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriffâ€™s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it… — Tony Stewart

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