Tragic Quotes - Page 5

• Nuestro error más trágico puede haber sido nuestra incapacidad para establecer una relación y una confianza con la prensa y la televisión con los medios de comunicación. Creo que la prensa no me ha entendido.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Comunicación, Pensamiento, Errores

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• Los trágicos sucesos acaecidos recientemente en este subcontinente han demostrado ampliamente que una nación no puede alcanzar la libertad sin sufrimiento y sacrificio.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Quaid Azam

  Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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• Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Book, Laughing, Stories

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• I was supposed to do The Joy Of Sex with John Belushi, but the week before we were gonna start filming, he died. So that was really tragic. That put the whole project on the shelf.

  P. J. Soles

  Joy, Week

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

  James Fenton

  Song, Purpose, May

  James Fenton (2003). “An Introduction to English Poetry”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• I can't go on. I'll go on.

  Samuel Beckett

  Grieving, Tragedy, Goes On

  The Unnamable (1959)

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• I quit painting very early. I just jumped ship. In a way, the window is the tragic possibility - you can jump out into your future. That kind of action is more like a direction. It's that same thinking that brought me to New York.

  Tehching Hsieh

  Thinking, Action, Painting

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic glamour. It was all very naïve. Of course, the only part of the stereotype that has proven true is the suffering and the starving. Now, my fantasy of scribbling poems in a tower is gone, but an anxiety about reviews, book sales, and awards has taken its place.

  Robin Beth Schaer

  Book, Taken, Anxiety

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.

  Simon Van Booy

  Character, Eye, Greek

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• La diferente experiencia estadounidense del siglo XX es crucial porque la lección del siglo para Europa, que esencialmente es que la condición humana es trágica, la llevó a tener que construir un sistema de bienestar y un conjunto de leyes y acuerdos sociales que son más profilácticos que idealistas. No se trata de construir futuros perfectos, sino de prevenir pasados terribles. Creo que eso es algo que los europeos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX sabían de memoria y los estadounidenses nunca supieron, y es una de las grandes diferencias entre las dos culturas occidentales.

  Tony Judt

  Past, Thinking, Perfect

  "Postguerra". Entrevista con Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. 20 de diciembre de 2005.

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• Something is fundamentally amiss when you refer to a person as illegal. Bottom line. That's why we so easily talk about this like we're talking about plants or crops. These illegals. My God, man, it's so tragic to me traveling around this country, this country that is getting more and more Latino, and you hear people use the words "illegal" and "Mexican" interchangeably. Interchangeably. Without blinking an eye.

  José Antonio Vargas

  Country, Eye, Men

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. J. J. Greene Quotes.

  Desconocido

  Dream, American Dream, Nightmare

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• I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

  Desconocido

  Brother, Thinking, Feelings

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• Creo que los artistas no hacemos arte: el arte se hace a sí mismo a través de nosotros. Yo no lo hago. Sólo soy un espectador. Actuar me lo recuerda porque yo no escribo las palabras, no tomo las decisiones. Ese es el director. El narcisismo es una condición trágica. Debe ser tan miserable vivir atrapado en un reflejo que sólo incluye la versión más pequeña de nuestras identidades. Nuestras verdaderas identidades no deberían tener fronteras ni límites.

  Ezra Miller

  Arte, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal rights are still the great unfinished business of America. The suffering has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African-Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm's winds and floods. I believe that kind of disparate impact is morally wrong in this, the richest country in the world.

  Edward Kennedy

  País, Creer, Oportunidad

  "Second Day of Hearings on the Nomination of Judge Roberts", www.nytimes.com. September 13, 2005.

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• 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.'

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Happiness, Death, Greek

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Ilustradas)", p.1033, Delphi Classics.

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• No se nos responsabiliza de cómo la economía asola el Congo. Los gobiernos no rinden cuentas de las políticas exteriores que ejercen allí. No existen estructuras institucionales para hacer justicia. La prensa es muy limitada. Hay muy poca transparencia. Se encuentra una simetría en ciertas tendencias humanas básicas, y estas tendencias no siempre son nobles o bellas. Creo que tenemos el instinto de apartarnos de eso, de no reconocerlo, aunque es algo que forma parte de nosotros. Hay cierto lado trágico y triste en la naturaleza humana que, en nuestra búsqueda de la belleza, ignoramos.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Bello, Ejercicio, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But that's how writing poetry has felt to me my whole life. Everything seems to have just gotten immensely more mortal and tragic and scary, which makes it hard to concentrate, but also, if harnessed, can provide immense energy for making poems.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Writing, Scary, Energy

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who's trying to drink himself to death on an Indian reservation in Dakota. It was written for me, so it's something I would love to do.

  Tom Hardy

  Men, Long, Trying

  "Rough Character". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 13, 2009.

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• I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto expletive. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs are against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff.

  Tupac Shakur

  Real, Fall, Ghetto

  Fuente: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Los científicos que fabricaron la bomba atómica son, en mi opinión, personas con un destino trágico. Había una carrera entre Estados Unidos y la Alemania nazi y pruebas fehacientes de que los alemanes estaban más avanzados en física nuclear, y teníamos que conseguir la bomba primero. Pero entonces se utilizó esa terrible arma, o instrumento de genocidio, y muchos de los científicos más sensibles se convirtieron rápidamente en antinucleares, y muy eficaces.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Destiny, People, Physics

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

  Wendy Cope

  Happy Life, Thinking, Plot

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• At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is breaking through the hard crust of our widespread cultural materialism and pseudo-scientific underestimation of what a human being is meant to be together with an equally tragic overestimation of what we human beings are capable of in our present everyday state of being. The intensity of the present confusion about the nature and existence of God is a symptom of this yearning within the whole of our modern culture.

  Jacob Needleman

  Giving, Confusion, Everyday

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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• The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

  Lois Capps

  Cells, Research, Refusal

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• El poder es veneno. Su efecto en los Presidentes siempre ha sido trágico.

  Henry Adams

  Power, Political, President

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