There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.