Tragic Quotes - Page 27

• It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will

  Bruce Springsteen

  Believe, Magic, Fairytale

  Song: Countin’ On A Miracle, Album: The Rising, 2002

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• As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Daughter, Children

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• A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Twilight, Law

  "Madness and Civilization". Book by Michel Foucault, trans. by R. Howard, 1988.

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• But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.

  Stephen L. Carter

  School, Order, Joy

  "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, April 1, 2002.

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• So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone can respond. If the scientific people could rid us of death, they might indeed hope to win over the heart and conscience of the world, permanently, to some form of non-theistic speculation. As it is, the tide ebbs, as I believe, only that it may flow again.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Believe, Heart, Winning

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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.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Beautiful, Thinking, Touching

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Dark, Sacrifice, Self

  Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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• It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Loyalty, Fate, Giving

  "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 341, 1997.

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• Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.

  Willie Nelson

  Prayer, Oil, Answers

  Willie Nelson (2007). “On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm”, p.37, Fulcrum Publishing

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• Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Profound, Madrid, Intense

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• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  War, Epic, Technology

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• There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Artist, Stills

  "Performance artist Marina "Abramović: 'I was ready to die'" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2014.

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• The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, Passion, Thinking

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.

  Mark Oliver

  Crush, Struggle, Past

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• I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

  James Gosling

  Thinking, Would Be, Java

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• If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Peace, Children

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• The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, War, Mean

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• It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.

  Ndabaningi Sithole

  Wisdom, Home, Government

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• That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

  David O. Russell

  Thinking, Looks, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• I never thought I was doing anyone a favour by bringing children into the world. With people as cruel to each other as they are, it's a terrible proposition. The best of lives are sad and tragic. The best of them. My general conclusion is that it's not a nice thing to do. The world doesn't need it. The kid doesn't need it.

  Woody Allen

  Children, Nice, Kids

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• The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

  Louis Garrel

  Children, Couple, Separation

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• The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come into the Broadway community they open the door and they say "welcome". Not only do they do that, but when times are really tough and horrendous things have happened and really tragic things - the Broadway community shows up! And they say "how can we help?".

  Lorna Luft

  Doors, Community, World

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

  Robin Leach

  Luxury, America, Achievement

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Party, Political

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• It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Good Intentions, Intention, Hard

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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