For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.