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Quotes About Tragic

Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action. And whether they'll vote New Labour at the next election. There's no need to be cynical, Susan. Why not? You've got me there.
~ William Donaldson
The truth is that God is to be found in all things--even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.
~ David Brenner
It is not to be imagined that William entered on this new chapter of his wedded life with rosy expectations. However, he had long ago given up expecting much of anything. Drama, as usually happens in real life, had ended not in tragic denouement, but in lassitude and anti-climax. In pity, in exasperation, in ironical apathy, he settled down to his accustomed round.
~ David Cecil
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
~ David Mamet
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
~ C. S. Lewis
There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.
~ Lynn Viehl
It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.
~ Morgan Spurlock
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
~ Leon Trotsky
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.
~ Russ Feingold
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
~ Gertrude Stein
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
~ N. C. Wyeth
I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.
~ Amy Sedaris
The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.
~ Charles Baudelaire
In the end, his mother's memory could not be shamed by a gift from God. Don't worry about me, she would say, and never worry what others may think. I worried too much about what others thought—I can tell you it's a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in the eye.
~ Jan Karon
It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.
~ Janny Wurts
todo puede ser ridículo o trágico según quién lo cuente y cómo se cuente
~ Javier Marías
I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters
~ Edith Wharton
I sometimes wonder if what I consider "romance" might be dying out— l'amour fou , crazy love, destructive passion, crippling jealousy, extreme and violent and tragic.
~ Edmund White
Unlike the riotous appetites of adolescence, his present cravings had a tragic tinge, they were cravings for the appetites, metacravings, wanting to want.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.
~ Albert Einstein