Tragic Life Quotes:

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

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wise, Personal Tragedy, Great Tragedy

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

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

topic: Attitude, Laughter, Laughing, Tragic Life

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

- Charles Darwin

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

topic: Life, Encouraging, Spiritual, Value Of Life, Had A Great Time

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

- John W. Gardner

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

topic: Life, Wisdom, Art, Inspiration And Creativity, Amazing Experiences

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.81, CLC Publications

topic: Life, Health, Individual, Length Of Life, Breadth

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Shadow, Candle, Walking, Brief Life, Darkness In Macbeth

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

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Tragedy, Life Is, Tragic, Tragic Life

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

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

topic: Art, Mean, Interesting, Tragic Life

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

- George Meredith

topic: Passion, Plot, Needs, Wot, Tragic Life

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

topic: People, Ugly, Tragic, Tragic Life

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

- Anais Nin

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

topic: Tragedy, Trying, Mystery, Tragic Life

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

topic: Block, Silence, Police, Tragic Life