Tragic Quotes
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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 Paulson
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There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
Simone de Beauvoir
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld
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For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek
Michael Gove
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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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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.
Isaac Herzog
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You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.
Evan Bayh
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So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
Marian Wright Edelman
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The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis
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The Olympic movement around the world has expressed its sympathy for the victims of September 11th in many ways since that tragic day. Showing the flag this respect is just one more way.
Anita DeFrantz
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The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
Ernest Thompson Seton
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
Vita Sackville-West
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What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.
Chang-Rae Lee
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
Leon Trotsky
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It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.
Terry Zwigoff
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The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
Harvey Cox
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“Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair – just keep laughing, until you are dead.”
Alina Bronsky
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I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.
Andrew Gurland
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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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I feel it's such a tragic thing [Kurt Cobain's suicide]. Here is a guy, a young guy, that had everything in his hands. He could have had a great life. He had a wife, he had a child, he had a fantastic career. He was important to a generation. And for him to do that - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
Albert Camus
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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The capital punishment controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.
Ernst Junger