Tragic Quotes - Page 16

• With my being from Hawaii and being very family oriented I don't really have a fear of a tragic ending. I dont see any tragic ending for me.

  Bruno Mars

  Hawaii, Tragic Endings, Family Oriented

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.

  Laura Huxley

  Baby, Thinking, Action

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• The teenage pregnancy is such a tragic thing. It is such a sad and tragic thing because the children who have children do it because they think they are going to be loved. They are going to be loved, but they have to give love to be loved otherwise the child becomes depressed. Isolated and depressed. In other words apathetic.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Teenage, Pregnancy

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Selfish, Mean, America

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss. He didn't fall in love with her.

  Diane Keaton

  Daughter, Falling In Love, Loss

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.

  Annie Lennox

  Bridges, Giving, People

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

  Matthea Harvey

  Talking, Political, Borders

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

  Alice Lowe

  Intelligent, People, Elements

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Animal, Thinking

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• I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

  Robert Wyatt

  Suicide, Want, Stuff

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Dad, Loneliness

  "Tim Burton & Johnny Depp In Step With Alice in Wonderland". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.

  Diane Warren

  Loss, Years, Missing

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• To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.

  Elaine Dundy

  Blessed, Destiny, Stories

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• My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

  Shalom Auslander

  Kind, Having Hope

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.168, Penguin

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• The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Jobs, Giving

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• And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Laughing, Honor

  "The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

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• It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
  It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
  This is the tragic accent of the scene.

  Wallace Stevens

  Rome, Speech, Poverty

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.283, Knopf

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• From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

  Golda Meir

  Memories, Russia, Brutality

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Violence, Reminders

  "Billy Graham, on Satan and Jonestown" by Edwin Clark, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 1978.

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• Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Clouds, Assuming

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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• Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Jealousy, Ridiculous, Ought

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.160

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• There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Life, Mean, Fate

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.485, Northwestern University Press

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• You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.

  Martin Amis

  People, Tragedy, Principles

  1995 Explaining why only comedy can reflect contemporary reality. Quoted in an interview in The Scotsman, 7 Apr.

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• The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Funny, Humor, Keys

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “In My Good Books”, p.42, A&C Black

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