Quotes About Tragedy

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

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.

If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

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.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins

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

When a tragic circumstance rules our life, each one of us needs to take the time needed to heal. No matter the lesson or time taken set your intention to discover THE LOVE ALIVE WITHIN.

Life engulfs happiness and sadness... We determine the part we want to run with and to avoid tragedy needs strategy. Be wise.

Whether our life has been a triumph or tragedy can only be judged at its very end.

The most gifted people that I had known had died young.

This is the feeling that death does not descend upon all men alike, but that a more oncoming wave of its tragic tide carries off a life placed at the same level as others which the waves that follow will long continue to spare.

Berma in Andromaque, in Les Caprices de Marianne, in Phèdre, was one of

Misery spreads out from a murder in ripples, blighting everything it touches.