Top 100 Life Is A Tragedy Quotes
#2. Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.
Moliere
#3. Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.
Anne Rice
#4. Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
Woody Allen
#5. It has been said that life is a tragedy to those who think and a comedy to those who feel.
Bruce Watson
#6. Life is a tragedy for those who feel ... but a comedy for those who think
Brenda Walpole
#7. Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
Robert Breault
#8. To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
Charles Colson
#9. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
#10. Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.
Gabrielle Roy
#11. Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
Jonathan Swift
#12. Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.
Margaret Cho
#13. Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
D.H. Lawrence
#15. You said, 'Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.
Ha Jin
#16. Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#17. The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
Paul Bremer
#18. One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from a deity who is testing and training you like a lab rat! And that is what we are saying when we fretfully ask, What can God be trying to teach me through this tragedy?
Robert M. Price
#19. The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.
Lisa Papademetriou
#21. If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life
a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.
Thornton T. Munger
#22. There are three sayings I live by, and one of them is 'The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.' That's what losing a job is like. That's why we have to bring them back.
Ken Hendricks
#23. The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
Dan Brown
#24. The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.
Bob Parr
#25. I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
Billy Joel
#26. The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.
Norbert Wiener
#27. If your life is like a tragedy it is because you have been neglecting something - most likely yourself.
Bryant McGill
#28. Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
Aristotle.
#29. Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.
Dee Remy
#30. Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.
Gilbert Murray
#31. Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
Orson Scott Card
#32. If tragedy does not ensnare a man, if affliction does not agitate him, if love does not lay him down in the cradle of dreams, then his life is like a blank, white page in the book of existence. In that year I saw the
Kahlil Gibran
#33. It is a cumulative tragedy, the same tragedy that blights the entire country. With so many dead bodies, how do you begin to rebuild? How do you trust enough to hope? And how do you hold on to life when it no longer seems worth living?
Vanessa Woods
#34. The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.
Debasish Mridha
#35. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
#36. The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such a mingling.
Karen Harper
#37. They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
E. Lockhart
#38. I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.
Mary Hart
#39. Upon the death of her mother-in-law, Elearnor Roosevelt said, It is truly a tragedy of life to have spent 35 years with someone and upon her death, not to give it a second thought.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#40. Whenever there is love beyond boundaries ...
Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans ...
Nevertheless, a Trial is born ...
You pass that trial, sacred you shall be ... if you don't, your are immortal !!!!
M.W.Latif
#42. In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.
Albert Schweitzer
#43. My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
Judy Collins
#44. The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
Arthur Miller
#45. How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither or rejoice and thrive.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#46. Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.
Solange Nicole
#47. The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
Viktor E. Frankl
#49. Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Jean Racine
#50. All of us have to deal with death at one time or another, but to have in one's heart a solid conviction concerning the reality of eternal life is to bring a sense of peace in an hour of tragedy that can come from no other source under the heavens
Gordon B. Hinckley
#52. Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#53. It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music?
D.A. Botta
#54. A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.
Rick Warren
#55. Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
Rajneesh
#56. As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organic life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence.
Boris Pasternak
#57. Gerthe also talked about travel. She talked about living in Jamaica. She joked about her husband and her haircut, because she is more than the earthquake. A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story.
Amy Poehler
#58. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholem Aleichem
#59. The purpose of life is to endure tragedy as well as comedy in hopes of sharing a story with a happy ending.
Jes Fuhrmann
#60. Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#61. They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines."
"Maybe that's why it's hard to tell if we're living in a tragedy or a farce."
"We need more special effects and dance numbers.
Bill Watterson
#62. What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.
Philip K. Dick
#63. Her entire existence is trying to figure out what her life is supposed to be while her heart breaks a little bit everyday over the tragedy of being alive.
Arlaina Tibensky
#64. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.
William Shakespeare
#65. Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.
Howard Barker
#66. There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.
Mark Twain
#68. The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#69. They don't know I only speak in runaway train stations
and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.
No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close
because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.
Katelin Wagner
#70. If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always.
Steve Maraboli
#71. The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction - the tragedy of American domestic
Morris Berman
#72. The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this instead of acknowledging that suffering represents one of the strongest incentives of life, which is the base of human solidarity and what brings intensity to happiness.
Claudia Llosa
#74. Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
Jeannette Walls
#75. A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.
Brian L. Weiss
#77. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#78. I was more of a genius in dreams than life. That is my tragedy.
Fernando Pessoa
#79. We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.
Yip Man
#80. It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.
Emma Goldman
#81. St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.
Peter Kreeft
#82. A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
A.W. Tozer
#83. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.
Abhijit Naskar
#84. Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.
Samantha Bee
#85. But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.
Margaret Atwood
#86. To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.
Oswald J. Smith
#87. MY LIFE IS a beautiful tragedy. A sad love story on an endless loop. The players may evolve and the setting may change, but it's always the same. Love. Pain. Death. Repeat.
S.L. Jennings
#88. The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
Eli Roth
#89. In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.
Charles Dickens
#90. The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.
Myles Munroe
#91. We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.
Anais Nin
#92. This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose.
Marc Faber
#93. I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.
Paula Heller Garland
#94. In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.
Vincent Nichols
#95. Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
Eric Idle
#96. Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
Alvar Aalto
#97. Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
Theodore Roosevelt
#98. One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#99. You have the subconscious mind that sometimes is attracting tragedy, attracting bad things, because you want to be a victim. Because to be a victim is to justify a lot of frustrations and failures in your life ... You want to be successful? The universe is helping you.
Paulo Coelho
#100. Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.
Derek R. Audette
