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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon. -- Jenny Weber
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -- Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Broun
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
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
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
The tragedy of life is that people do not change. -- Agatha Christie
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. -- F.B. Meyer
The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -- Plato
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Hale Broun
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done -- John Galsworthy
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. -- Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. -- Albert Einstein
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life. -- Jonathan Nolan
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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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- William Mather Lewis
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- William Mather Lewis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy. -- Bernard Malamud
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it. -- Radha Mitchell
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. -- Barnett Newman
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance. -- Jan C. Ting
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy. -- Curt Flood
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
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
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. -- Vaclav Havel
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this. -- Rafael Palmeiro
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. -- Whittaker Chambers
Life is a tragedy of nutrition -- Arnold Ehret
In my life, I've dealt with tragedy. -- Leona Lewis
Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy. -- John Piper
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy. -- Ellen Glasgow
A life without tragedy would not be worth living. -- Edward Abbey
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. -- Rick Warren
My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor. -- Debasish Mridha
Life is an adventurous story filled with triumph and tragedy. -- Debasish Mridha
Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled. -- Orrin Woodward
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim. -- Benjamin E. Mays
We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy. -- William Butler Yeats
Life is a tragedy. so, walk through it with a dam SMILE -- chefPrayas
Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint. -- Charles Peguy
The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life. -- Paulo Coelho
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action -- Aristotle
I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy. -- Quentin Crisp
Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! -- Napoleon Hill
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. -- Charlie Chaplin
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision. -- Helen Keller
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. -- Benjamin Franklin
Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential -- Ed Palubinskas
It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach. -- George Arthur Buttrick
The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose. -- Myles Munroe
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. -- Aristotle
A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy. -- Debasish Mridha
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. -- Jean Racine
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened. -- Voltaire
The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked. -- Mark Batterson
The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own. -- David Whyte
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. -- Mason Cooley
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy. -- Laurence J. Peter
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life -- Florence Luscomb
Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die. -- Anne Rice
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole
The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life. -- Rudy Giuliani
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. -- Mark Twain
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. -- Billy Joel
The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy. -- Erik Erikson
Life is not tragic. The tragedy is what people do to themselves and to each other. -- Marty Rubin
Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on. -- G. Norman Lippert
The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead -- Assegid Habtewold
Love has turned to be a sad tragedy of my life even we both are alive -- Seema Gupta
The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked. -- Mark Batterson
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy. -- Nathan Fillion
Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life. -- Debasish Mridha
The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value. -- Sunday Adelaja
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value -- Sunday Adelaja
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. -- Eric Idle
Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. -- Nora Roberts
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. -- Antonin Artaud
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. -- Robert Breault
The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why -- Simon T. Bailey
Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long. -- Ellen Glasgow
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it. -- Jonathan Swift
The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally. -- Bob Parr
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor. -- Rajneesh
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . -- Oscar Wilde
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty. -- Woody Allen
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up. -- Charlie Chaplin
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless -- Oscar Wilde
God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come. -- David Platt
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison. -- Patricia Neal
Fill the pages of your life with the exciting story of triumph and tragedy, failure and victory, desire and discovery. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
A tragedy can catch us any time possible; for this very reason, we must catch the life any time possible! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint. -- Leon Bloy
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. -- Jeannette Walls
The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low. -- Paul Bremer
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life. -- Michael Sheen
Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life. -- Fauja Singh
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost. -- Barry B. Powell
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning. -- Robin Roberts
Life requires us to do things anyway, despite what sort of fear or monster or tragedy or suffering lurks behind that anyway. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. -- Sholom Aleichem

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