Tragic Quotes - Page 13

• I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  Jack Whitehall

  Mother, Giving, Birth

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• I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

  Andrew Garfield

  Thinking, Stories, Love Story

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• Ric Flair, you can tell all these people that I'm full of it for calling myself the Legend Killer? Well, I think you're full of it for coming out here every Monday and telling the whole world that Triple H is the best wrestler in the world today. I know it's not true, I'm pretty sure all these people know it's not true and Ric Flair, I know that deep down inside your heart, you know it's not true either which is why it's so tragic to see what you've become. This generation is gonna remember Ric Flair for kissing Triple H's ass!

  Randy Orton

  Monday, Heart, Kissing

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• As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Thinking, People, Drug

  "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne's Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, Heeb Magazine, January 20, 2009.

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• When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really ALL THEM. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the KITE – it's the AIR.

  Pharrell Williams

  Horse, Believe, Cocky

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• I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced [If he had lived], I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, Long Island.

  Rachel Uchitel

  Believe, Kids, Fighting

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• There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.

  Rex D. Pinegar

  Prayer, Our World, People

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• The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

  Ward Connerly

  Taken, Decision, Together

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• It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

  Rachel Held Evans

  People, Purpose, Agonizing

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "master"”, p.263, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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.

  Alina Bronsky

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Hammer and Tickle". Interview with Stephen Heyman, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 16, 2011.

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• I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.

  Eddie Vedder

  Drug, Needs, Life Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the Bond machine firing on all cylinders: superb editing and photography, incredible score, great setpieces. The most romantic in the series, and it actually has, of all things, a tragic ending.

  Christopher Nolan

  Photography, Editing, Machines

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• I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is thrust upon someone who had little real hope of avoiding it. However tragic that reality, the simple fact remains that it is more important to protect the rest of society for as long as it remains a danger to them.

  Jeremy Kyle

  Real, Simple, Long

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• The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.

  Douglas Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Awful

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• The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

  Edward Abbey

  Acceptance, Suffering Of Others, Heroic

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

  Edward Abbey

  Ridiculous

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Jesus, Children, Integrity

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• The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

  Carl Jung

  Tragedy, Body, Want

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• We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

  Mark Rothko

  Matter, Timeless, Subjects

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

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• Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Often Can, People

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• Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Exercise, Men, Duration

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.

  William Styron

  Depression, Cancer, Healing

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• It's not tragic to die doing something you love.

  Mark Foo

  Surfing, Surfer, Something You Love

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• The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Religious, Racism, Community

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• To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Soul, Genius

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

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