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Tragic Quotes

It is time to examine our tragic failures – and as we do, we will see some of our redeeming strengths.

– George W. Bush

On racism in America.

She was executed in her own home. I think this tragic killing of Breonna Taylor, in the sanctity of her own home, is one of the worst ones that I have ever seen. She did not deserve to die in this manner.

– Benjamin Crump

On killing of black emergency medical care worker by police, who shot her eight times.

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

– Henry Adams

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.

– Harry Graf Kessler

I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.

– Aimee Bender

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.

– Charlotte Rampling

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.

– Bill Nelson

What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.

– Alain de Botton

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it’s tragic.

– Carrie Fisher

For reasons I don’t fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

– Christian Camargo

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

– Elliot Richardson

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

– D. H. Lawrence

World history is tragic.

– Friedrich Durrenmatt

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.

– Dave Barry

I don’t need drugs to make my life tragic.

– Eddie Vedder

My cousin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and it’s just a really tragic disease, and as of yet there is no cure, so I feel I want to get it as much publicity to do it as I can.

– Nick Robinson

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

– Mark Rothko

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

– Greg Kinnear

Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.

– David Lagercrantz

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

– Piet Mondrian

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

– George McGovern

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

– Elaine Stritch

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It’s tragic.

– Evan Osnos

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

– Nikolai Berdyaev

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

– Mike Figgis

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

– Mario Monicelli

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

– Louis Garrel

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

– Kathy Mattea

I don’t think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

– James Nachtwey

I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.

– James Langevin

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