Tragic Quotes - Page 37

• Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

  Thom Filicia

  Tacky, Dull, Boring

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

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• Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Rome, Meditation, Harmony

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• Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

  Brian Jacques

  Voice, Broken, Old Friends

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

  Hope Edelman

  Order, Everyday, Chaos

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• Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

  Jacques Lacan

  Real, Desire, Dimensions

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• What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.

  William Styron

  Country, Grief, Mean

  William Styron (1993). “Set this House on Fire”, Vintage

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• Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Growing Up, Damn, Circumstances

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• The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

  Ross Macdonald

  Running, Detectives, Vibrations

  Ross Macdonald (1973). “On crime writing”

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• The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.

  Ralph Ellison

  Philosophy, Details, Alive

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.129, Modern Library

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• We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Dark, World

  "In the now" by John Colapinto, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2007.

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• Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Needs

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• Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Girl, Women

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women”, p.468, Xist Publishing

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• I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

  Tina Fey

  Reflection, People, Abortion

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• There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

  Watchman Nee

  End Of Life, Ends, Courses

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.81, CLC Publications

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• I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Solitude, Littles, Purity

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Air, Trying, Sun

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

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• I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Mad, Figures

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• Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

  Eleanor Catton

  Real, Essence, Perfect

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• There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Truth, World, Clash

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• The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

  Paul Tournier

  Block, Men, Self

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• It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid... These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Crazy, Stupid

  "Newt’s Law of Malevolence" by Warren J. Blumenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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  What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

  Jane Addams

  Race, Failing, Possibility

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Soldier, Enemy

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• You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Drama, Finding Yourself

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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