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.
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
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.
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.
Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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.
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.
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
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.
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.
