Tragic Quotes
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The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.
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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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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
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The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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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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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.
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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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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
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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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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.
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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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Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
