Tragic Quotes

Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!

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

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

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

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

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

World history is tragic.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

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

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

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.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.