Quotes About Tragic

Hard cases make bad law" is another way the tragic vision has been expressed. To help some hard-pressed individual or group whose case is before them, judges may bend the law to arrive at a more benign verdict in that particular case—but at the cost of damaging the whole consistency and predictability of the law, on which millions of other people depend, and on which ultimately the freedom and safety of a whole society depend.

The hallmark of the vision of the anointed is that what the anointed consider lacking for the kind of social progress they envision is will and power, not knowledge. But to those with the tragic vision, what is dangerous are will and power without knowledge—and for many expansive purposes, knowledge is inherently insufficient

Abandon the Order, Allen Walker. If you do…I'll stop this tragic slaughter.

Is life essentially accidental and meaningless, or is it as profound and mysterious as Shakespeare's great tragic hero believed it to be?

Real life is always tragic and those who do not know this have never lived.

Alla fine, tutte le passioni sono tragiche, tutti i desideri maledetti, perché si ottiene sempre meno di quel che si è sognato...

The place was still there, present in the sunshine, instead of being hidden far away in darkness in the confines of some tragic opera.

Yet she knew that it was not really the sharp tragic knife of passion that disturbed her now, it was some vaguer nervous storm out of her unsatisfied woman's nature.

My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

Living is really hard, but death is forever. We're all going to die eventually, so what's your rush' Even if you think committing suicide will make you seem tragic and romantic and cool, you'll never know what happened anyway. Don't you want to know how your life was supposed to turn out. Wouldn't you like to see what you're made of?

Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna's hands, desirable by Peeta's confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues sensibility. There are moments of humor even in the sorrow, and I'm really interested in the way that the blues have that tragic-comic view of life - what Langston Hughes called 'laughing to keep from crying.'

Such a funny thing death is for mortals. You cry. You morn. You grieve. You get angry. But death is not always tragic, dear one. Sometimes death is the ultimate expression of love.

I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—

Needless to say that the ideas of this book fall squarely into the Tragic category: We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws.

The source of the tragic in history is in mistaking someone else's unconditional for conditional—and the reverse.

È una strana consolazione sentirsi dire dieci volte al giorno: siate allegro, non occorre altro alla vostra malattia. Certo il rimedio è eccellente, ma il suggerirlo non è lo stesso che amministrarlo. Non pensano che siate allegro significa siete triste, e che nulla è meno allegro di questa idea.

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

if death is so fearful then life must be good? dandy then, babe, genuinely traginew, and I've found out why men sign their names to their works— not that they created them but more than the others did not.

Is it a metaphorical accident that the cranium will fuse in months to come, thus ensuing the illustrated close-mindedness, the inevitable, tragic separation of I from the World? The ego always wins, of course. And at what price?