The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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.
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.
I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society.
It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.
My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul... You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.
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