Tragic Quotes

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end

Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful.

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

It's not tragic to die doing something you love.

I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have in their gut, but nobody goes around wearing that as their outmost exterior, all the time.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

World history is tragic.

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

With my being from Hawaii and being very family oriented I don't really have a fear of a tragic ending. I dont see any tragic ending for me.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.