I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.
The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.
There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity; they represent for me what is left of our humanity.
Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.
I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. And suburbia seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was a special time and place in history, with special dynamics. And now, we're going to have to live with the consequences of that. And the consequences will be tragic.
When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.
Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.
John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.
The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.