Quotes of: Tragic Keyword

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

Elaine Stritch

I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way ...

Kathryn Lasky

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

D. H. Lawrence

Death is only tragic if you have tragically wasted your life on meaninglessness.

Life

It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

If the mind fits, shrink it.

She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all?

A Tragic Heart

Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen; we just have to remember to have the rescue crew nearby when it strikes.

A Tragic Heart

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically.

Anna Karenina

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen

His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.

A Tragic Heart

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

The path of memory is neither straight or safe, and we travel down it at our risk.

The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.

A Tragic Heart

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. ...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm ...

Soledad O'Brien

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Tcheky Karyo