Tragic Quotes - page 2

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. (Ellen Glasgow)
And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic. View quote
Birch Bayh
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. View quote
David Hyde Pierce
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. View quote
Kathy Mattea
The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place. View quote
Mike Figgis
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. View quote
Susan George
A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death. View quote
Vincent Bugliosi
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. View quote
Alain de Botton
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird. View quote
Frank Zappa
I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless. (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi)
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. View quote
Ayn Rand
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, - the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. View quote
Edward Gibbon
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is. View quote
W. H. Auden
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain. View quote
Lionel Trilling
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. View quote
Nikolai Berdyaev
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. (George Bernard Shaw)
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. View quote
Emil Cioran
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. View quote
Edmond Rostand
Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U. S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own. View quote
Willie Nelson
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. View quote
Ornette Coleman