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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
— Lois Capps
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
— Billy Graham
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
She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.
— W. Somerset Maugham
She laughs frequently and wildly and with a sort of precocious, tragic abandon.
— Tennessee Williams
He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities. Courageous,
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.
— Lynn Viehl
Lonely? Yes. But a solemn, brooding, tragic loneliness that a man hates with a passion - and yet loves so much he craves for more.
— George R R Martin
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
— Irvin D. Yalom
You lose a love like this and you'll never find it again. Never.
— Stevie J. Cole
When something is tragic you never really forget it.
— Sophia Olson
It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.
— Jimmy Carter
isn't it such a tragic thing. when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't.
— Rupi Kaur
I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.
— Amy Sedaris
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
— Leslie Easterbrook
9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.
— Richard Engel
My story isn't beautiful or tragic. It's just another story about a cursed girl living a shitty life.
— Lesley Anne Cowan
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
— George Santayana
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
— Dave Eggers
Some people are just different, even in the same family.
— Danielle Steel
Soun Tendo: Drowned Octopus Spring?Guide from Jusenkyo: Is tragic tale of giant octopus who drown 1600 year ago ... somehow. — Rumiko Takahashi
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
What a journey ... what a day ... what madness, so much worse than tragic! What to do except dance, dance, only dance ...
— Abraham Verghese
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live ...
— Helen Keller
Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
— George McGovern
A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.
— Mario Monicelli
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
— Bill Nelson
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.
— Rebecca West
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
— Erich Fromm
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
— David Duchovny
I don't think haters are small-minded; it's more tragic than that. I think they're great minded, but choose to sell themselves short every day.
— Steve Maraboli
It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands.
— Pepe Eliaschev
Apparently, I'm tragic and dangerous.
— Jennifer Niven
Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.
— Alice Dreger
At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.
— Melina Marchetta
Strange, how seldom a person knows which days of his life are tragic and which are happy,
— Tom Reiss
A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.
— Alain De Botton
We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.
— Costa-Gavras
The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end.
— Ernest Hemingway,
...but destiny had a number of tricks up her sleeve, didn't she, both joyful and tragic?
— Heather Barbieri
It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.
— Jack Hyles
Life is magical. If life had no magic, it would be tragic.
— Debasish Mridha
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.
— Billy Graham
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
— Pope John Paul II
Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.
— William, Saroyan
I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.
— Sophie Kinsella
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
— Elaine Stritch
Stars are tragic. Most of the stars are nothing but reminders of love gone horribly wrong, or men challenging the gods.
— Kaitlin Bevis
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
— Rufus Wainwright
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.
— Gabrielle Roy
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
— Tori Amos
War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.
— Prince Hassan Bin Talal
John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.
— Andy Borowitz
We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.
— G.K. Chesterton
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
— Woody Allen
My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.
— Sri Chinmoy
A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.
— Robert Breault
For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don't kill your own dreams.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Who decides which defects are funny and which ones are tragic? Nobody laughs at blind people or makes iron lung jokes.
— David Mitchell
For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek
— Michael Gove
Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.
— Terry A. O'Neal
I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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[God] seeks us in dark places and suffers with us in our tragic prodigality.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
— Charlotte Rampling
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
— Edward Gibbon
It was a tragic and annihilating war, in which intellect fought naked with intellect, and the blows fell not upon the mind but upon the soul.
— Dorothy Dunnett
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
— Erika Slezak
The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.
— Vaclav Havel
I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way.
— Jennifer Niven
Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg