Tragic Quotes
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For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.
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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
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Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.
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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.
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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.
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The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.
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I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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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.
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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.
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Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.
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The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
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The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
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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.
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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.
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I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.
