Top 100 Quotes About Tragedy Of Life

#1. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Norman Cousins

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#2. Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.

Michael Leunig

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#3. 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

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#4. Perhaps it is both the tragedy of life and the blessing of life that most moments only happen once.

Glenn Haybittle

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#5. The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion," and being now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up.

Truman G. Madsen

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#6. The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

William Barclay

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#7. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

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#8. The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood Hale Broun

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#9. The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

Debasish Mridha

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#10. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

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#11. 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

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#12. The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

Agatha Christie

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#13. The tragedy of life is when you do not know what to do with time

Sunday Adelaja

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#14. There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.

Nikki Rowe

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#15. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

Raymond Chandler

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#16. What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.

Wolfgang Tillmans

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#17. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#18. The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood Broun

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#19. While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad.

Salman Rushdie

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#20. Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.

Raymond Chandler

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#21. The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Benjamin E. Mays

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#22. The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.

Norman Cousins

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#23. Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life.

Lindsey Davis

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#24. The greatest Tragedy of life is not death but what dies within us when we are still alive

Norman

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#25. It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light.

Plato

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#26. The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Thomas Carlyle

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#27. The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

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#28. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

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#29. It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

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#30. Tragedy of life is not to have many purposes in life, but to have no purpose in life.

Debasish Mridha

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#31. The biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

John Galsworthy

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#32. Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#33. The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

F.B. Meyer

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#34. That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them - that is the tragedy of life.

Henry Miller

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#35. Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.

Karen Armstrong

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#36. How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

Vachel Lindsay

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#37. Marriage
yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Mark Twain

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#38. We can easily forgive a child for being afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~Plato~

S.S. Segran

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#39. The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#40. It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

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#41. Truth be told, even with Sophronia's arm muscles, vampires could hurl her a great deal farther than Sophronia could hurl vampires. A great tragedy of life, no doubt. The

Gail Carriger

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#42. The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear.

Debasish Mridha

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#43. For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

Jonathan Nolan

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#44. 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

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#45. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Terri Garey

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#46. ...the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...

Agatha Christie

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#47. The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#48. It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Judy Collins

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#49. The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.

Alasdair MacIntyre

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#50. There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism

Dean Cavanagh

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#51. The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

Henry David Thoreau

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#52. The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.

Lisa Papademetriou

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#53. Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

Abebe Bikila

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#54. I'm glad you think this is funny," he says. "Come on," I say. "Tragedy is funny." "Are we in a tragedy?" he asks, smiling broadly now. "Of course. Isn't that what life is? We all die at the end.

Nicola Yoon

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#55. Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

Alex Lifeson

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#56. It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

Jocelyn Murray

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#57. 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

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#58. What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn't be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.

Julia Glass

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#59. The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value.

Sunday Adelaja

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#60. I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Juliette Binoche

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#61. Behold those times re-created by
the brutal power of sunlit images,
the light of life's tragedy.
The walls of the trial, the field
of the firing squad; and the distant
ghost of Rome's suburbs in a ring,
gleaming white in naked light.
Gunshots: our death, our survival.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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#62. Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Nora Roberts

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#63. Life is a tragedy of nutrition

Arnold Ehret

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#64. Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.

Lawrence Block

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#65. Don't know when my life came to visualising intense pain and tragedy to putting it down on paper, to putting across a message of love in times of abject hate. Thank you everybody and the conspiracy of the stars for showing me this day. To many, many more books, inshallah, and to many more launches.

Simran Keshwani

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#66. The whole world is based on fear, even behind the jealousy of the day before lay dear. Fear of being alone, fear of being abandoned, fear of life, fear of being trapped in tragedy, fear of the animal in us, fear of one's hatred, of committing a crime, fear of cancer, of syphilis, of starvation.

Anais Nin

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#67. Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

Norman Cousins

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#68. For every choice there is a tragedy

Sunday Adelaja

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#69. Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.

Julian Barnes

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#70. The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Benjamin E. Mays

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#71. Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

Rhian J. Martin

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#72. What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.

David S. Baxter

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#73. Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.

Giles Andreae

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#74. And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.

Vasily Grossman

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#75. Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short ... was she happy? Not for a moment.

Mikhail Bulgakov

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#76. She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going to watch the storm in front of her and pretend like nothing had happened. Yes, Allah is expecting her to be patient and keep on marching forward

Diyar Harraz

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#77. Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Voltaire

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#78. The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up
but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

Paulo Coelho

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#79. The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

Denzel Washington

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#80. Of everything
I have ever endured,

Y
O
U

are
My Favourite Tragedy.

Meraaqi

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#81. The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Jim Holt

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#82. I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy.

John Turturro

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#83. Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#84. Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

Michelle Bachelet

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#85. Just the thought of you and all the universe conspires against me.

J. Limbu

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#86. 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

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#87. I've come to realize that you can fight a lot of things in life, but you can't help who you love. You can't change who your heart chooses. I'm afraid that very fact will be the greatest tragedy of my life.

Sarah Jio

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#88. Her death leaves me both depleted and emboldened. That's what tragedy does to you, I am learning. The sadness and wild freedom of it all impart a strange durability. I feel weathered and detached, tucking my head against the winds and trudging forward into life.

Claire Bidwell Smith

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#89. Did it really have to be like this?that the source of Man's contentment becomes the source of his misery?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#90. Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

Aristotle.

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#91. I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.

Jonathan Lethem

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#92. The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.

John Eldredge

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#93. Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.

Robert Black

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#94. If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.

Nalini Singh

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#95. The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

Mason Cooley

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#96. 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

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#97. The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

Rebecca Harding Davis

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#98. Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning ... I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

Marie Dressler

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#99. While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

Gilda Radner

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#100. How tragic lives there are in this world! But there is a greater tragedy: People who have very hard lives often believe that they will have a better life after death! Losing hope in life and running after an absolute illusion is even a bigger tragedy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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