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"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, Harpo Speaks Autobiography - paperback, pg. 400
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"The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity." »George Stanley McGovern
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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
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"I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment." »Marcel Marceau
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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, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president." »Kurt Vonnegut
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"... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." »George Santayana
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"Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant." »Henry M. Wriston
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"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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"Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen." »Dame Rebecca West
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"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh." »Katharine Hepburn
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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today." »Dale Carnegie
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"We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented." »Albert Einstein
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"Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for." »Author Unknown
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"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)" »Gerald R. Ford
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"Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it." »Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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"Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another" »Theodore Hesburgh
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"Human history’s the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations." »John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x
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