Tragic Quotes
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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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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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The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.
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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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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 world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
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The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
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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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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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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
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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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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
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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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Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
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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 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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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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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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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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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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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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“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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
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I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.
