Tragic famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
-- Ang Lee -
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
-- Ben Vereen -
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
-- C. S. Lewis -
What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with
-- Charlotte Rampling -
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
-- Charlotte Rampling -
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 -
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
-- Dale Carnegie -
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
-- Edward Abbey -
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
-- Edward Abbey -
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
-- Elaine Stritch -
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
-- Frederick Leboyer -
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
-- Gabrielle Roy -
It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.
-- Jack Hyles -
I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.
-- James Nachtwey -
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.
-- Joe Hill -
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic
-- Joseph Stalin -
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.
-- Kylie Minogue -
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end
-- Leon Gambetta -
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.
-- Lynn Coady -
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
-- Marina Abramovic -
It's not tragic to die doing something you love.
-- Mark Foo -
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
-- Mark Rothko -
To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.
-- Mary Jo Bang -
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
-- Melinda Gates -
For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek
-- Michael Gove -
The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
-- Mike Figgis -
I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.
-- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
-- N. C. Wyeth -
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev -
There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
-- Oscar Wilde -
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
-- Sam Francis -
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
-- Samantha Morton -
My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.
-- Shalom Auslander -
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
-- Taylor Caldwell -
Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
-- Thomas Keneally -
To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
-- Tucker Carlson -
There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
-- Watchman Nee -
I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.
-- Woody Allen -
I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.
-- Heather O'Neill -
When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.
-- Mariko Tamaki -
When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.
-- Mike Colter -
I was supposed to do The Joy Of Sex with John Belushi, but the week before we were gonna start filming, he died. So that was really tragic. That put the whole project on the shelf.
-- P. J. Soles -
Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.
-- Ronald D. Moore -
If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.
-- T. J. Miller -
It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
-- Walter Keane
