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

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

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

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 live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

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.

When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.

I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

I was supposed to do The Joy Of Sex with John Belushi, but the week before we were gonna start filming, he died. So that was really tragic. That put the whole project on the shelf.

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.