Tragically Quotes
94 Tragically quotes by 85 unique authors
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Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically;…
— Stephen King
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been…
— Barry Goldwater
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Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher…
— Ray Comfort
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We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear…
— Kevin Costner
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
— D. H. Lawrence
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I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is…
— Michael Moore
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Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
— John Podhoretz
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If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such…
— Ken Kesey
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
— Boris Pasternak
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister’s cat Muffin.
— Rick Riordan
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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
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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
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Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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
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Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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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
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People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.
— Bryant H. McGill
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