Tragic Quotes

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

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

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

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

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.