Tragic Quotes
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
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I was active on Facebook for a while, responding to comments and thanking fans for their appreciation. But I found that the Facebook feed was numbing my emotions. I'd see an extraordinarily tragic news item, and even before I could react to it, see a hilarious meme right below it. This was confusing me.
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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.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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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.
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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
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The account of the face treatment that Catherine had undergone at the hands of a quack was taken from a description given to Elizabeth by Katherine Mansfield, her New Zealand cousin, of her own experience in Paris when she was searching for a cure for consumption. This may have been too tragic a source. If Elizabeth needed copy she had, if Frere is to be believed, her own experience to draw on.
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The tragic capacity of the human race for going off course was a little balanced by the integrity of the animals who were always obedient to the law of their being. We were meant to love like that, thought Mary, simply because that's our law and we were told to obey it.
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My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?
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I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
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There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.
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Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.
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I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.
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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
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BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.
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Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
