(199 quotes found)
“The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.”
Sylvia Browne
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective”
Arnold Beisser
“It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut”
Walter Parker Stacy
“Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.”
Walt Disney
“Tenors are noble, pure and heroic and get the soprano, if she has not tragically expired before the final curtain. But baritones are born villains in opera. Always the heavy and never the hero-that's me.”
Leonard Warren
“Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.”
Dave Barry
“California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land”
Christopher Isherwood
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
Oscar Wilde
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