“ The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does. ”
- Harpo Marx- Copy
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“ I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and tragic aspects of American lower-class life. ”
- Lincoln Kirstein- Copy
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“ I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are. ”
- Stanley Kubrick- Copy
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“ The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ”
- Florence King- Copy
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“ The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. ”
- Arthur Henderson- Copy
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“ There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. ”
- J. J. Greene- Copy
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“ Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. ”
- Walt Disney- Copy
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“ To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it? ”
- Tucker Carlson- Copy
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“ I resent articles that have described my childhood as tragic. It wasn't a bed of roses and it wasn't a hellhole. You just get on with it. ”
- Kristin Scott Thomas- Copy
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“ There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic. ”
- Ben Vereen- Copy
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“ The simple belief in automatic material progress by means of scientific discovery is a tragic myth of our age. ”
- Bernard Lovell- Copy
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“ I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done. ”
- Jack Ruby- Copy
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“ The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. ”
- Vladimir Putin- Copy
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“ Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. ”
- Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki- Copy
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“ When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cruel, or beautiful, or true, he knows he must do so as a stranger. ”
- Willie Morris- Copy
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“ A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. ”
- Constance Rourke- Copy
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“ If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive. ”
- Walter Kane- Copy
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“ It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. ”
- Robert Lynd- Copy
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“ The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards. ”
- Jonathan Berry- Copy
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“ For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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