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Quotes About Tragic

She might be that most unfortunate of women, a barren queen
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Akri won't let me eat any of them nasty gods. What's the world coming to when a demon gots to beg for tidbits...not eve a finger sandwich or a single knuckle. Tragic. Terribly tragic.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
~ Constance Rourke
The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.
~ Denise Levertov
People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.
~ Fred Durst
Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
~ Paul Auster
Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
~ Tcheky Karyo
Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.
~ John Masefield
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.
~ Lynn Coady
If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.
~ Freeman Dyson
We should consider the idea that youth is not actually wasted on the young. That their dramas are no more grand than they should be. That their emotions make perfect sense, once you adjust for inflation. For someone going through adolescence, life feels epic and tragic simply because it is.
~ John Koenig
Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.
~ John Masefield
I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up.
~ Elizabeth Knox
You should have known The price of evil And it hurts to know that you belong here Yeah No one to call Everybody to fear Your tragic fate is looking so clear Yeah Oooooooh It's your fucking nightmare -Nightmare
~ Avenged Sevenfold
tragic Powell, the Company Man Who Could Have Been Great, who was offered the mantle by all the polls but deferred to the Boss's Callow Son and vouched for him
~ Garrison Keillor
He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love.
~ Gaston Leroux
He accuses himself, he curses himself, he implores my forgiveness!...He confesses his cheat. He loves me! He lays at my feet an immense and tragic love. ... He has carried me off for love!...He has imprisoned me with him, underground, for love!...
~ Gaston Leroux
He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, in the house on the lake, underground. He accuses himself, he curses himself, he implores my forgiveness!... He confesses his cheat. He loves me! He lays at my feet an immense and tragic love... He has carried me off for love!... He has imprisoned me with him, underground, for love!... But he respects me: he crawls, he moans, he weeps!
~ Gaston Leroux
Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?
~ George Eliot
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
~ Rufus Wainwright
I found myself thinking of Potts as a tragic figure, a guy who'd been a happy towheaded kid you'd love to take fishing with you, who'd mistakenly invested in academic medicine when he'd have been happy in his family business, and who'd become a splattered mess on the parking lot of a hospital in a city he'd despised. What had been the seductiveness of medicine? Why?
~ Samuel Shem
It is therefore no wonder that modern thought, to the extent that it reduces man from a spiritual to a purely biological entity, elevates the state of inexorable competition, conflict, and self-serving aggression from a tragic lapse of our ordained destiny into the primary principle of the natural order.
~ Sanford Schwartz
Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
~ Walid Jumblatt
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.
~ Barbara Boxer