Quotes about Tragic
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
- Alain de Botton
But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work-- and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Reflect the new way of seeing: the human situation is so tragic that there is no answer from within history. The Christ event is therefore the invasion of this world by Another, who is retaking for himself the world he created.
- Fleming Rutledge
This sectarianism is an attempt to leap away from the narrow path of the paradox and become a tragic hero at a cheap price. The tragic hero expresses the universal and sacrifices himself for it. The sectarian punchinello, instead of that, has a private theatre, i.e. several good friends and comrades who represent the universal
- Soren Kierkegaard
Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.
- Max Lucado
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters
- Edith Wharton
If religion cannot find a meaning for human suffering, humanity is in major trouble. All healthy religion shows you what to do with your pain. Great religion shows you what to do with the absurd, the tragic, the nonsensical, the unjust. If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it. If
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The tragic illusion of everyday life is that we mistake shadow for reality. It is impossible to be outside the web woven of love, and at moments when evens throw us too far into oblivion, a message comes to day, "You are loved.
- Deepak Chopra
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 Jr.