Tragic Quotes
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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
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So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW.
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I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.
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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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What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.
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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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Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam... These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.
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My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
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For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
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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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One tragic example of this orientation is the rampant prescription of painkillers, which now kill more people each year in the United States than guns or car accidents.
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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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As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
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Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
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I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.
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Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.
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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
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I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
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Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
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I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.
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All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
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Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.
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When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.
