Tragic Life Quotes

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Laughter, Attitude, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Health, Individual

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Futility Of Life, Play, Life And Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Tragedy, Life Is, Tragic

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• It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Art, Mean, Interesting

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.222, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

  George Meredith

  Passion, Plot, Needs

  'Modern Love' (1862) st. 43

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• She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

  Joe Hill

  People, Ugly, Tragic

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• All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

  Anais Nin

  Tragedy, Trying, Mystery

  "Under a Glass Bell". Book by Anais Nin, 1944.

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• The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
  and overrules the oncoming roar
  of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
  it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.

  Denise Levertov

  Block, Silence, Police

  Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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