Tragic Quotes - Page 28

• Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.

  Kirby Page

  War, Mean, Sacred

  Kirby Page (1976). “Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology”, Dissertations-G

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• I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.

  Munir Butt

  Disappointment, Party, Blow

  Foreign Affairs, 2009.

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• Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Greek, Mixtures, May

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• I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

  Richard Schiff

  Kings, America, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.

  A. C. Bradley

  Men, Suffering, Vices

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley

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• Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Romance

  Source: collider.com

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• In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early.

  Simon de Pury

  Artist, Impact, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

  Tom Peters

  Mars, Eras, Flaws

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• We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Months, Events, Citizens

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• A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.

  Taika Waititi

  Children, Dark, Elements

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Glasses, Years

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.60, Westminster John Knox Press

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• As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.

  Robertson Davies

  Blessed, Tragedy, Half

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Believe, Library

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• I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Love Is, Ideas

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• I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Crush, Children, Joy

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Philosophy

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• The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that that sort of love only worked when you were sure both people would always be around for each other. If one half of the equation left, or died, or was slightly less perfect in their love, it became the most tragic, pathetic story invented, laughable in its absurdity. Without Grace, Sam was a joke without a punch line.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  People, Perfect, Grace

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• Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Light, Cities, Limits

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.80, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Goes On, Busy, Like You

  Sophie Kinsella (2010). “Mini Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 6)”, p.333, Random House

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• I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.

  John Waters

  Book, Print, Audience

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

  Paul Auster

  Life Is, Comic

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

  Sylvia Kristel

  Order, Other Worlds, Leaving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.

  D. Michael Quinn

  Teacher, Reality, Past

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• Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Winning, Oasis

  "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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