Tragic Quotes - Page 26

• A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Long

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.89, Beacon Press

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• Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Spiritual, Men

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• If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

  Norman Mailer

  Curves, Wind, Would Be

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.570, Henry Holt and Company

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• THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Touching

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Birth, Has Beens

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• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

  Ornette Coleman

  New Orleans, Hair, Long

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• Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, People, Finding Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspirational, Good Life, Magic

  Song: He Went to Paris

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• There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Men, Numbers

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

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• When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

  Albert Camus

  Tragedy, Happiness And Love, Individual

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.

  Beverly Johnson

  Country, Children, Reality

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• My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

  Paul Feig

  Real, Style, Comedy

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• You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

  Ayn Rand

  Knowledge, Errors, Evil

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• To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political treachery of the Mexican Revolution and its consequences so intimately that we feel hunger, lust, thirst, grief, and saddle sores, and admire anew the awesome durability and courage of the people of Mexico-- especially the women.

  James Alexander Thom

  Grief, People, Mexican

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• It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

  William Osler

  Health, Fate, Medicine

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Writing

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• You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

  Billy Corgan

  Phoenix, Life And Death, Ashes

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Home, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

  Tori Amos

  Stuff, Figures, Happened

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• Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Character, Order, Ideas

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• We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

  Diane Sawyer

  Country, Thinking, Pilots

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• I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

  Steve Gleason

  Opportunity, New Experiences, Perspective

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• 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.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Dirty, Naughty

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• The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

  Georges Simenon

  Communication, Two, People

  Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

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