Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic."
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Tragic
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Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."
Taylor Swift
Singer, Songwriter
"Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful."
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice."
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Designer, Photographer
"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."
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"It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy."
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"The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most."
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"There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted."
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"God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense."
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"I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight."
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"There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it."
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"Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia."
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"This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction."
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"Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed."
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"Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once."
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"If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus."
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"Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality."
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"She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English."
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