Tragic Quotes - Page 15

• Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.

  David Sedaris

  People, Sometimes, Drink

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it cast, the one thing it didn't do was strip people of their humanity. And I wish that all of us were as strong as the people that walked down those steps and got on those boats.

  Lonnie Bunch

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and the risk of keeping it very simple is you might loose some of the audience because it's not overt, it's hidden, not coming at you. Then you might cut through to some of this numbness and reach something profound and tragic.

  Peter Weir

  War, Cutting, Simple

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

  Jenna Fischer

  Book, Thinking, Self Love

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.

  Randy Alcorn

  Evil, Heaven, Trying

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's tragic that children are encouraged to ignore history. We ignore history and any literature that is historically based in history. Even though both of those films involved animals, of course they reflect human behavior.

  Ben Kingsley

  Betrayal, Children, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to be kind of alerted to the fact that clowns are scary and then you can't look at them the same way again. There's something very sinister about them... There's something very tragic about them as well. The last thing they are is funny.

  Reece Shearsmith

  Scary, Be Kind, Clown

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• God was always important to me. I always believed. I just never knew Him until I had to know Him. He was my best friend I never hung out with. Then my life took the crazy, tragic, turn and I got on my knees and begged Him to show me Himself so I would know not only Him but myself.

  Cynthia Garrett

  Crazy, Important, My Best Friend

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic situations that we see all over the world, I think, without the U.N., people would suffer much more, and the situation would be much more terrible.

  Antonio Guterres

  Thinking, People, Effort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or favoring their own friends and affiliates and customers who can pay for fast lanes, that's a horrible infringement on free speech. It's censorship by media monopolies. It's tragic: here we have a technology, the internet, that's capable really of being the town square of democracy, paved with broadband bricks, and we are letting it be taken over by a few gatekeepers. This is a first amendment issue; it's free speech versus corporate censorship.

  Michael Copps

  Taken, Technology, Democracy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

  Mariko Tamaki

  Moving, Trying

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Party, Political

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• It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

  Robin Leach

  Luxury, America, Achievement

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

  Walter Keane

  Success, Alive, Prove

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• There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to him. I mean he is ultimately a pure-heart.

  Peter Jackson

  Heart, Mean, Ashamed

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Children, Father, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered thing, but it's also very funny, which is simply a matter of the playwright being alive and observant and entertaining, and understanding not only the world but what will play.

  William Monahan

  Real, Drama, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Kissing, Rights, Iran

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe] is either a false myth or else he represents the denial of human society. We can't play by ourselves. In literature, it's even more complicated, because one has to play with an indeterminate number of players simultaneously and every game is different. The other player can abandon your game at any time...to go play chess.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Player, Games, Numbers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse.

  Marco Roth

  Too Late, Stories, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, People, Legacy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.

  Lothar Hirneise

  Cancer, Healing, Health

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• We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Love, Unusual Things, Secret

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• The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, Passion, Thinking

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come into the Broadway community they open the door and they say "welcome". Not only do they do that, but when times are really tough and horrendous things have happened and really tragic things - the Broadway community shows up! And they say "how can we help?".

  Lorna Luft

  Doors, Community, World

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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