“The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature”
Arnold Bennett
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
W. M. Lewis
“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.”
Oscar Wilde
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
Vaclav Havel
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Albert Schweitzer