I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die. " I did it.
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructionsinformation. It's a tragic place.
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers towards their boss, and equally interesting to note the attitude towards the workers. It is tragic to notice how many chief executives of large concerns are absolutely unknown, even by sight, to the rank and file of their workers.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
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.
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.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.