Quotes with tragic

  • It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
  • I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
  • We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
  • Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
  • The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
  • There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Elie Wiesel I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anne Rice It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Birch Bayh And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Buzz Aldrin As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Billy Graham Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bill Viola Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Oscar Wilde Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boy George Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
    The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Arlen Specter Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Marcel Marceau I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
    Marcel Marceau
    French artist (1923 - 2007)
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  • Barry Sternlicht I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Pat Buchanan If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Constance Rourke In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
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