Tragic Quotes - Page 36

• There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Wonderful, Moments, Humour

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• If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

  Tupac Shakur

  Hero, Play, White

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• You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Hurt, Betrayal

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• If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Records, Definitions

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.

  Ben Affleck

  Inspiring, Boston, Our Love

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2013

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• The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.

  Frantz Fanon

  Struggle, Class, People

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• The Christian family is under attack on all fronts. Christian marriages are disintegrating at an alarming rate. Children are not receiving the proper training and modeling from their Christian parents. And, from my perspective, a major contributor to this tragic slide is usually a husband and father who is not fully assuming his God-ordained role as spiritual leader.

  Jim George

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

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• Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Real, Dark

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

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• Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Laughter, Attitude, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Heart, Night, Men

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• If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Tragedy, Looks, Height

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• When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency – the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Long, Vision

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  There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nuts, President, Done

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.

  Lisa Genova

  Life, Beautiful, Mother

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• Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Reality, Men

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• Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.

  Dalai Lama

  Home, Compassion, Practice

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving, Sublime, World

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.86, Publishdrive

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• Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Order, Long

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.130, Basic Books

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• Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

  Edward Abbey

  Sadness, Life Is, Rejoice

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented

  Roger Casement

  Two, World, Macedonia

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• It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Work, Women, Memorable

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

  Cornel West

  Reality, Persistence, Two

  Cornel West (2017). “Race Matters: With a New Introduction”, p.107, Beacon Press

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• NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Abhorrent, Needs

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• There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Believe, Thinking

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