Tragic Quotes - Page 30

• Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

  Sarah Polley

  Moments, Midst, Situation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Play, Mountain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

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• BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Difficult Situations, Support

  Source: thesaker.is

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• "And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is a myth that has led generations to expect something from marriage that is not possible.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Marriage, Generations, Literature

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• The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance are considering a project, they ask themselves, "Does this lend itself to a simplistic marketing approach which will guarantee a big opening weekend?" As a movie-goer, I think that's tragic, because when you look back at those movies that made us fall in love with movies in the first place, most of them were not high-concept, and most of them would not have "won their weekend."

  Curtis Hanson

  Falling In Love, Weekend, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker as well as the target. And threats are now mounting, particularly at the Russian border, confirming the prediction of George Kennan and other prominent figures that NATO expansion, particularly the way it was undertaken, would prove to be a "tragic mistake," a "policy error of historic proportions."

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mistake, Winter

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, there will be tragic moments in it.

  Chukwudi Iwuji

  Real, Giving, Tragedy

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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• You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

  Harold Ramis

  Laughing, Tragedy, Comedy

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the hero, the love interest, the comedian, the villain. Transformation excites me. So does truth. Nothing is more thrilling, hilarious, and tragic than the truth. Those things motivated me to become an actor. Also, they always have the best food on set.

  Blake Griffin

  Hero, Giving, Great Love

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? How can this fabulous new force in the sky fail to serve the hope of teh world and the peace of the world?

  Juan Trippe

  Hate, Sky, World

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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.

  Annie Lennox

  Challenges, Tourists, Purpose

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

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• I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Goes On, Busy, Like You

  Sophie Kinsella (2010). “Mini Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 6)”, p.333, Random House

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• Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it!

  Jamie Foxx

  Heart, Kids, Boys

  "Jamie Unchained". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Just trying to tell the truth about, you know, the struggle of - being alive is funny, it's just inherently tragic and also hilarious - in a fun way and in a sad way. That seems to connect with people.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, Struggle, People

  "This is Judd Apatow". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. December 30, 2012.

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• If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

  T. J. Miller

  Laughing, Existence, Lifts

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

  Paul Auster

  Life Is, Comic

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?

  Delia Sherman

  Animal, Hatred, Desire

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.

  John Waters

  Book, Print, Audience

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Winning, Oasis

  "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I've seen some glaciers in the world which have been, which are just turquoise blue blue glaciers up in the Arctic. It's tragic to think that because of climate change, because of man's actions, they're melting away.

  Lewis Pugh

  Men, Thinking, Blue

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• That's exactly how I felt. So getting to suddenly know this young [princess] Margaret, who had this extraordinary life - it was sad and tragic and difficult and sort of astonishing and getting to know her young self was amazing because it completely defied all my expectations.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Princess, Self, Expectations

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling helps you learn about other aspects of our history, like the story of Christ the Redeemer. It's empowering and inspiring.

  Laz Alonso

  Thinking, Empowering, Triumph

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

  George Meredith

  Passion, Plot, Needs

  'Modern Love' (1862) st. 43

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• Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!

  George Meredith

  Horse, Moving, Ocean

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.257, Library of Alexandria

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• What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.

  Thomas Sowell

  Loss, Men, Two

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.117, Basic Books

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