Tragic Quotes - Page 13

• Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department in their hometown and driving around said high school as the decades slip past.

  Dana Gould

  School, Past, People

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• We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.

  Rachel Weisz

  Thinking, Rocks, Treats

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm interested in everything about what it means to be a human being, so every role is an excuse to delve into a different way of life, a different socio-economic background, and a different tragic or comedic circumstance.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Mean, Different, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have in their gut, but nobody goes around wearing that as their outmost exterior, all the time.

  Emmy Rossum

  Fire, Stuff, Guts

  Source: collider.com

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• Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

  Enele Sopoaga

  Fall, Humanity, Climate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)

  Tristan Tzara

  Men, Eggs, Water

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• The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

  David Brenner

  Painful, Truth Is, Found

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• All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miraculous. History record the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Pain, Destiny, Names

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• I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Photography, Loss, Emotional

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• If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religious, Cosmos, Literature

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

  Iris Murdoch

  Theatre, Parting

  Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Green Knight”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party.

  Newt Gingrich

  Hurt, Party, Arrogance

  "Dawn of a Newt Age" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those that appear as they are, not smuggled in beneath the clothes of history. Fiction enriches their existence, completes them and, fleetingly, compensates them for this tragic condition which is our lot: always to desire and dream more than we can actually achieve.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Dream, Lying, Men

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “Making Waves: Essays”, p.198, Macmillan

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• [S]ince their candidate lost, many [Democrats] have allowed their hatred of George W. Bush to put them in the tragic position to be cheering for the same result in Iraq as Osama Bin Laden and al Zarqawi.

  Joe Scarborough

  Cheer, Iraq, Hatred

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• You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Careers, Justice, Judging

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.

  William J. Mitchell

  Dream, Wall, Plato

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• As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity; they represent for me what is left of our humanity.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Reality, Order, Humanity

  Interview, brooklynrail.org. April 6, 2009.

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• At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Winning, Numbers

  "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived". Book by Rob Bell, June 7, 2011.

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• My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Magic, Mind

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• Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

  Willa Cather

  Ego, Half, Pulling Away

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.18, Vintage

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• We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.

  Emile Chartier

  Taken, Passion, Light

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• John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

  Andy Borowitz

  Men, Should Have, Secret

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 27, 2012

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• I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's Judy Garland or Norma Desmond, there is this tragic quality to older women that one can revel in, and you want it to be more three-dimensional than that. So it was important for the character to be strong and resilient, because there are so many victims in opera.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Strong, Character, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

  Tcheky Karyo

  Way, Comedy, Life Is

  "Tchéky Karyo Talks THE MISSING, the Full Arc for His Character, Season Resolution, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 6, 2014.

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• I think when tragic things happen it is on surface. It is like the ocean. One the surface a waves and sometimes the wave is very serious and strong. But it comes and goes, comes and goes, and underneath, the ocean always remains calm. Tibetans have a saying: "If bad news comes to you listen here" (points to the right ear) "and let it our here" (points to the left ear).

  Dalai Lama

  Strong, Ocean, Thinking

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