Tragic Quotes - Page 6

• Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.

  Dylan Moran

  Fun, Aunt, Hands

  "Dylan Moran: 'Panel shows bore me'" by Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. February 25, 2011.

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• We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?

  Albert Serra

  Dream, Keys, Atmosphere

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Rip, Believe

  "The capped crusader" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2003.

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• The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Tasks, Rare Moments

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

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• Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Games, Sometimes, Absurd

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• In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

  Aimee Mullins

  Sports, Stories, Interviews

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• Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, America, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

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• 'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, War, Race

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• I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

  Brian Molko

  Jesus, Hate, Light

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• How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with getting the love we think 'works' for us. The point of love is to make us grow, not to make us immediately happy. Many of us have forsworn the chance for the deepest love in reaching out for the easier one.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Past, Love Is

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• I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

  Kylie Minogue

  Fashion, Outfits, Hairdos

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• If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice. But because he's now been based to this huge stage, then his dimensions become immense. He's not a tragic figure because he doesn't have the capacity to be tragic. But the consequences of his life and his self now are immense; they're threatening to the world and to the sanctity of human life.

  Richard Ford

  Character, World, Kind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I hope that people will come and experience our play 'A Small Oak Tree Runs Red' . I don't want anybody to suffer, but I source the 18th Century philosopher David Hume in association with the experience. He asserted that when we go to a tragic play, and when the form of tragedy is well put together, then we can experience a catharsis that is soul cleansing, and an anodyne to what our life would be like without it.

  Harry Lennix

  Running, People, Tree

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail - which we don't have the capital for anymore - but nobody is interested in repairing the existing rail system, which would be far less costly and hugely beneficial for us. In short, we are acting cluelessly. And life is tragic. The clueless usually suffer.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Running, Clueless, Car

  Source: www.terrain.org

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• The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

  George McGovern

  Identity, Campaigns, Cases

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

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• There's something about Michael J. Fox that I loved when he did all the '80s stuff. His way of performing all the physicality, which is why it's so tragic now, but the way he used his body so much as well, I loved.

  James McAvoy

  Body, Stuff, Way

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• It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

  Moby

  Decision, Matter, Sometimes

  “Amy Winehouse's Death: Moby Remembers Her Final Performance” by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

  Kylie Minogue

  Gay, Icons, Tragedy

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• You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, Reading, Order

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

  Gijs de Vries

  Europe, Long, Terrorism

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• I don't think the possibility for beauty can be foreclosed, because beauty can take so many forms. There is beauty that arises from the unexpected, when our familiar perspectives are thrown off balance. There is also the beauty that paradoxically comes out of the tragic, that emerges because we are reminded of what is no longer there, that becomes powerful because of what is absent.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Powerful, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Childhood, Over It

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

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• I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.

  Kesha

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  "KE$HA and the Not-Quite-72 Virgins in Her Own Personal Heaven". Interview with Mayy Sullivan, www.esquire.com. August 13, 2009.

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• Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.

  Ala Bashir

  Life, Monday, Hate

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• In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

  Stefan Zweig

  Understanding, Suffering, Abnormal

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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