Tragic Quotes

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

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

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

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

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

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

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end

Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful.

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.

It's not tragic to die doing something you love.

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

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

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

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

Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have in their gut, but nobody goes around wearing that as their outmost exterior, all the time.

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.