No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.
Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life. . . Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.
That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.
Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.
As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity; they represent for me what is left of our humanity.
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.