Tragic Quotes

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. (Stephen Hawking)
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. View quote
George Orwell
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. View quote
Molière
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world. (Georges Simenon)
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 the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. View quote
George Eliot
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, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. View quote
Alexander Pope
Boxing has become America's tragic theater. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. View quote
James Baldwin
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. View quote
Florence King
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. (Alfred Jodl)
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. View quote
Arthur Henderson
I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay