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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
Joseph Stalin
The passing of one individual is sorrowful, but the loss of countless lives is a mere number.
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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
Watchman Nee
It is a sorrowful realization to reach the end of life and be cognizant that we have been journeying down the wrong path.
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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.
Charlotte Rampling
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
Joseph Conrad
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There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
Frederick Leboyer
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When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
Julia Alvarez
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For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek
Michael Gove
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Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end
Leon Gambetta
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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.
Gabrielle Roy
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Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful.
Taylor Swift
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The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
Edward Abbey
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It's not tragic to die doing something you love.
Mark Foo
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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
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A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
Phil McGraw
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld
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We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Mark Rothko
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The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
Erich Fromm
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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.
Edward Abbey
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If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.
T. J. Miller
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It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.
Jack Hyles
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By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
Charlotte Rampling
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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
Carrie Fisher
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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.
Sam Francis
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Emmy Rossum
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To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
Tucker Carlson
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Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.
Sarah Polley
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God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
C. S. Lewis
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I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
Tori Amos
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I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.
Woody Allen
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My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.
Shalom Auslander
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You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
Elaine Stritch
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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
Walter Keane
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Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.
Napoleon Hill
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Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.
Mason Cooley
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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.
Bruno Mars
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
Quentin Crisp
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There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
Marina Abramovic
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The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
Ben Vereen
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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
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I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.
John Waters
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Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
Paul Auster
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The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.
Iris Murdoch
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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
Jeanette Winterson