Quotes About Tragic

It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.

It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation.

The "Vasco da Gama's era" ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

For the one enemy we have in this Universe is Stupidity, Darkness of Mind; of which darkness, again, there are many sources, every sin a source, and probably self-conceit the chief source. Darkness of mind, in every kind and variety, does to a really tragic extent abound: but of all the kinds of darkness, surely the Pedant darkness, which asserts and believes itself to be light, is the most formidable to mankind!

I know it's tragic to be tender. I know it's dangerous to be kind. I know it's vicious to care. Listen to me. I know what's going to happen to you. You don't need a window, you need a fire escape. You'll need a skylight to get where you're going. I can't tell you where.

The truth is, most of the genuinely tragic episodes of lost food are things that are somewhat outside the reach of the home cook, even a home cook like me who has been known to overreach from time to time.

In tragedy anything comic is a blemish and in comedy anything tragic is ugly

Cui Pyrrhus:  'Referes ergo haec et nuntius ibis Pelidae genitori; illi mea tristia facta degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento. Nunc morere.

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss.

Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A tree shook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained in that moment. But when you attempt to reconstruct it in words, you will find that it breaks into a thousand conflicting impressions.

Mik az álmok? Jelenetek, triviális vagy tragikus, mozgó vagy statikus, fantasztikus vagy közönséges jelenetek véletlenszer? sorozatai, melyekben többé vagy kevésbé valószer? eseményeket habarcsolnak össze holmi groteszk részletek és holtak jelennek meg bennük új díszletek között.

Dostoevski's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity—all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of sinning their way to Jesus or, as a Russian author Ivan Bunin put it more bluntly, spilling Jesus all over the place.

Francis Weller says, "The idea that you have to earn a living is a tragic way to think about being a human being." Especially if that's your only way of thinking about your one precious life. This is why the current state is a scandal. It's not just because of what happened in the past. It's because what happened is still happening. Karma is living energy that gets manifested in economics, politics, and the justice system.

Wait, you mean she's trying to get you and me together? No, she can't be serious." "I'm afraid so. Once she and Dad return from their trip to Spain I'll break the tragic news that sadly you and I were not to be." "You can say that again. Never. Not in a million years." Ward's dark brows rose. "My mother believes I'm a catch." "A flaw common to many fond mothers, I'm sure.

The previous circumnavigation came to a tragic conclusion fifty-five years earlier

As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.

That's tragic, also unfortunate, and often illegal. More importantly, it's also unnecessary.

What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.

It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon.

A man may have a perfect body, but if his emotions, mind, and will are not under the control of the Holy Spirit he will fail regularly and tragically as the husband, father, and follower God intends him to be.

He had tragic bones and a lifelong lease on a dark cloud.