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.
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.
I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
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.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.
With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.
Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.
Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.
So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage. And the tragedy of life is to fail in that test and so fail to qualify to return in glory to our heavenly home.
That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.
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.
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.
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.
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.
