Tragic Quotes - Page 30

• I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

  Quentin Crisp

  Tragedy, Remember, I Can

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• Its hard to take in. One of our most talented singer songwriters has left us. RIP George Michael. Such sad, tragic news. 2016 please end.

  Mick Hucknall

  Rip, News, Singers

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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.

  Bill Gates

  Mother, Kids, Home

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• Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

  William Kent Krueger

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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• A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse.
  [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

  Horace

  Poetry, Matter, Comic

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• Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Looks, Littles, Pavement

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.

  Gloria Steinem

  History, Silence, Waste

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• The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.

  May Sarton

  People, Experience, Helping

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• I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

  Helen Keller

  Apology, Charity, Philanthropy

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.232, NYU Press

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Sides, Priceless

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• Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

  Billy Graham

  Perfection, Heaven, Earth

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• 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

  Beautiful, Art, Pun

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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.

  Zoe Akins

  Life Is, Good Things, Young

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• Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.

  Kim Chernin

  Country, May, Able

  Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

  Laura Huxley

  People, World, Littles

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• 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

  Grief, Fate, Flawed

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

  Juliana Spahr

  Girl, Mother, Writing

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• We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  War, Fighting, Reality

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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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• Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

  Wallis Simpson

  Pain, Loss, Race

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• 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

  Brother, Hands, Assassins

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 202, 1991.

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• The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

  Ida Tarbell

  Truth, Men, Essentials

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.24, Ravenio Books

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• Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Book, America

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• On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Art, Book, Eight

  Arthur Conan DOYLE (2010). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.690, Omnibus

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• The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

  W. H. Auden

  Hero, Law, Suffering

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Greeks and Us"), (p. 21), 1973.

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