Tragic Quotes - Page 38

• We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

  Tristram Stuart

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

  "Food waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads" by Alex Renton, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

  Erich Fromm

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

  John Cleese

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

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

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• I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Talking, Vaccines

  "Science Of Vaccines Is Settled - But Politics Are More Complicated". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. February 3, 2015.

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• Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Anger, Expression

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• The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

  Socrates

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Artist, Weakness, Criminals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Compliment, Inexorable, Paid

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

  Gertrude Stein

  Artist, Sorrow, Littles

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.108, Vintage

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• And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Confused, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.101, Scholastic UK

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• War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Past, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

  Warsan Shire

  Girl, Stars, Dark

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• There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

  Albert Memmi

  Real, Racism, Wish

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press

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• “Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Lying, Pride

  "East of Eden".

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• The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope — all reside within you.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Adversity, Overcoming, Cosmos

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• We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

  Henry Beston

  Taken, Fate, Men

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

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• For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, Philosophical, Men

  Conversation in 1930. "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections". Book by Rush Rhees, 1981.

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• Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Men, Suffering, Finals

  Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker (2000). “To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence”, p.21, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Life, Law, Lessons

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.17, Knopf

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• Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Car, Racism, Tragedy

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• Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lying, Love Is, Attachment

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• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hard Work, Sky, Age

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3688, Delphi Classics

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• For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

  Adolf Hitler

  Ambition, Mean, People

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• Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

  John Malkovich

  Writing, Shooting, Want

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• It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.

  Tony Bennett

  Country, Gun, Germany

  "Tony Bennett: Without Gun Control, U.S. May Turn Into Nazi Germany". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2013.

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