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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
— Charlie Chaplin
The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
— Mark Batterson
The purpose of life is to endure tragedy as well as comedy in hopes of sharing a story with a happy ending.
— Jes Fuhrmann
I was more of a genius in dreams than in life. That is my tragedy.
— Fernando Pessoa
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
Tragedies in hindsight look like farces.
— Julian Barnes
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
— Edward Abbey
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Maybe that's life. Trading in one tragedy for a better tragedy.
— Suanne Laqueur
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
— Douglas Adams
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
— Graham T. Allison
The tragedy is that every brain cell devoted to belief in the supernatural is a brain cell one cannot use to make life richer or easier or happier.
— Kay Nolte Smith
The greatest tragedy in life is our inability to experience and express fascination for the people and events we love while in their presence.
— Darrell Calkins
One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.
— J. Loren Norris
There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism
— Dean Cavanagh
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless ... - Oscar Wilde
— J.J. McAvoy
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
— Patricia Neal
But life is made of happiness and tragedy in equal proportions, and we will never change that.
— Jennifer Worth
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments.
— Robin Hobb
The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
— Paul Bremer
Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.
— Michelle Richmond
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
— K.L. Toth
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
— Jonathan Swift
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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
Everyone has tragedy in their life at one time or another, it's how they deal with it that defines them.
— Andrew Peterson
The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.
— Debasish Mridha
You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.
— Timothy Conigrave
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
— Elbert Hubbard
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
— Oscar Wilde
The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. III
— Aristotle.
I don't believe in the curative powers of suffering and tragedy; they happen because they're part of life and shouldn't be seen as a punishment.
— Paulo Coelho
The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
— Benjamin Mays
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
— Leon Bloy
Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.
— Charles D'Ambrosio
In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.
— Leona Lewis
Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy.
Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me. — Sara Anzellotti
Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me. — Sara Anzellotti
Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.
— Rhian J. Martin
The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
— Henry David Thoreau
Life in fear is the worse tragedy that can happen to a man
— Sunday Adelaja
WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.
— Linda Alfiori
Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.
— Fauja Singh
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
— Robert Breault
I was more of a genius in dreams than life. That is my tragedy.
— Fernando Pessoa
The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
— Mark Batterson
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
— Albert Einstein
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 wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
— Corliss Lamont
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
In spite of all the tragedy and cruelty, all humans have a kind heart, great spirit, and an insatiable love for the humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.
— Barry B. Powell
I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
— Vera Farmiga
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them - that is the tragedy of life.
— Henry Miller
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
— Patti Smith
That is the tragedy of everyday life: when you are in it, you can never see your self clearly.
— Jeff VanderMeer
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
And I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by nature suited for.
— Charlotte Rogan
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
Only in drama does it end with the tragedy; in life it grinds on. Moanday, tearsday, happy days, right through to Shatterdays. And Again.
— Gayla Reid
If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.
— James Mangold
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
— Alan Lightman
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
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
When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.
This is the duality of loss. — Christina Rasmussen
This is the duality of loss. — Christina Rasmussen
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
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
— Nathan Fillion
Tragedy of life is not to have many purposes in life, but to have no purpose in life.
— Debasish Mridha
God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.
— David Platt
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
— Charlie Chaplin
Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.
— William Shakespeare
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