Tragic Quotes - Page 35

• It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

  Paul Lazarsfeld

  Winning, Society, Would Be

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• I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

  Collin Peterson

  Lakes, Events, Red

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• Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Kings, Indulge In, Errors

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

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• An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Self, People

  "Conquering Self-centeredness". Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, August 11, 1957.

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• I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Mad, Figures

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• The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

  Mike Figgis

  Humorous, World, Fascinating

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• I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Solitude, Littles, Purity

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.

  William Styron

  Country, Grief, Mean

  William Styron (1993). “Set this House on Fire”, Vintage

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  There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nuts, President, Done

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving, Sublime, World

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.86, Publishdrive

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• To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Stupid, Responsibility, Men

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media

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• There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Heart, Night, Men

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• When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Stars, Confused

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• There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Believe, Thinking

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• 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

  Change, Education, School

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• Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Rome, Meditation, Harmony

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• A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

  Kathy Mattea

  Wine, Glasses, Gourmet

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• Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Race, Population, Doctrine

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• We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Air, Trying, Sun

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

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• Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.

  Dalai Lama

  Home, Compassion, Practice

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.

  Ben Affleck

  Inspiring, Boston, Our Love

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2013

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• Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Reality, Men

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• The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

  Billy Graham

  Real, Excess, World

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• The Christian family is under attack on all fronts. Christian marriages are disintegrating at an alarming rate. Children are not receiving the proper training and modeling from their Christian parents. And, from my perspective, a major contributor to this tragic slide is usually a husband and father who is not fully assuming his God-ordained role as spiritual leader.

  Jim George

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

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• If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

  Tupac Shakur

  Hero, Play, White

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