Tragically Quotes

94 Tragically quotes by 85 unique authors

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour… — Simone de Beauvoir
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at… — Zora Neale Hurston
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to… — D. H. Lawrence
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to… — Bell Hooks
Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise… — Daniel Quinn
I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten… — Nigel Slater
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read… — Daniel Pennac
Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sisterâ€™s cat Muffin. — Rick Riordan
You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary… — Cassandra Clare
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically… — Thomas Hardy
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own â€”â€ â€œThatâ€™s… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.' This was all said cheerfully.… — Bernard Cornwell
Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?â€ Dad asked. â€œTrip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice… — Sarah Rees Brennan
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
People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally. — Bryant H. McGill
Sheâ€™s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the… — John Green
Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly… — Rick Riordan
Weâ€™ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. Iâ€™m tragically funny and good-looking. — Rick Riordan
Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good… — Tom Hodgkinson
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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