Tragedy Of Life Quotes

“I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it.”
― Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

“Here is the confession
once made by a patient to Brierre de Boismont, which perfectly
describes the condition: 'I am employed in a business house. I perform
my regular duties satisfactorily but like an automaton, and when
spoken to, the words sound to me as though echoing in a void. My
greatest torment is the thought of suicide, from which I am never free.
I have been the victim of this impulse for a year; at first it was insignificant; then for about the last two months it has pursued me everywhere,
yet I have no reason to kill myself. . . . My health is good; no one in my family
has been similarly afflicted; I have had no financial losses, my income is
adequate and permits me the pleasures of people of my age.”
― Durkheim Emile, Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“Had he lived longer, Akutagawa might have come to realize that he was far from alone.”
― Jay Rubin, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

“The world surrounding me possesses an undeniable beauty, yet it has fundamentally shattered every aspect of my being.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Before we became criminals. Before we became ghosts.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time.”
― Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

“She took my morning with her. My day begins in the afternoon, and it’s always hazy.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“[A]nd in this miserable, fouled land there was no longer any place for fox, hound, or human being.”
― Daniel P. Mannix, The Fox and the Hound

“It should make no sense, really, that something good can come from something so tragic.”
― Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier

“My life changed forever in 2016 when my beloved stay-at-home husband was arrested for sexual assault of a minor. He was dragged out of our home in handcuffs by a SWAT team, never to return.
As tempting as it was to collapse, that wasn’t an option—especially for the sake of my two young daughters. Instead, I relied on what I know best: coaching.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“SHE BELIEVED THERE were two types of disaster. There were catastrophes like tidal waves and landslides that came crashing down on their victims with brutal and unavoidable force. Then there was the type of disaster that happened without fanfare, the terrible thing that crept up and slithered in. This thing was silent and relentless like decay but its accumulated effects were devastating. It not only destroyed your life but it also left you feeling impotent and guilty as if you should have noticed earlier and done more to prevent its advance.”
― Diane Connell, The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird

“Many of us are
drawn to tragedy because we understand that the world’s rule
is chaos, and chaos spares no one. And those who are sensitive
and sincere conceal their misery.”
― Sarah Khalil A.A., Journal Of Life

“The greatest tragedy of our age is
that we are born in a unique way
yet feel that we have to die
as a perfect copy of the world.”
― Laura Chouette

“We should not be surprised that pedagogues at the turn of the century thought this way, for they had as yet no inkling of the existence of unconscious compulsions. But when psychoanalysts today attempt to discover who bears the guilt, they are voluntarily relinquishing what is essentially their most previous possession: their knowledge of the unconscious and of the tragedy inherent in human existence. Sigmund Freud sensed this tragedy, and perhaps he was so relieved to "discover" the Oedipus complex because he hoped it would express the universally tragic nature of human life without assigning blame to individual parents.”
― Alice Miller

“There's no judgment. It's clear she's been punished enough. And it was basically the same all over, after all, Out There. And the fact that it was so good to hear her, so good that even Tiny Ewell and Kate Gompert and the rest of the worst of them all sat still and listened without blinking, looking not just at the speaker's face but into it, helps force Gately to remember all over again what a tragic adventure this is, that none of them signed up for.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Extremely tragic facts are like radiation, if you have been exposed to radiation too much, you will lose your health! From time to time you have to hide somewhere, yes, you have to escape from some heavy truth to keep the peace of your soul and the workings of your mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Living taught me selfishness, it has taken so much from me, in spite of having nothing afterward, it sustained the habit of taking, going so far as to steal what I had left of myself.”
“I don’t understand, are you saying that life stole your will to live? Doesn't that contradict the meanings?”
“Living and life are not the same. Living is breathing, something you pave, dragging around a body absent of life until we run out of ways to cope with the exhaustion. Life kills the living, and death cleans the remains.”
—Theatre”
― FinPoet

“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that’s stolen from us—that’s snatched right out of our hands—even if we are left completely changed people with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Life is a downpayment on a mirage.”
― Jack Freestone

“Blinded, now, in more than one way, Gail made Kaida co-owner and the sole beneficiary of her home, secretly, away from her other daughters and their heirs.
Kaida told her children that she and Gail had created a “trust bequest” for them but advised them to keep the secret from the rest of the family.
When the Quit Claim Deed was filed in county records, it was returned to Kaida’s name, not to Gail.
Unfortunately for the rest of the family, this mother-daughter relationship had become so intertwined and interdependent, it was difficult to see which one was the host tree and which one was the strangler fig.
The tree, now grown tall, would bloom in the foreseeable future. Only a death certificate and affidavit needed to be filed in order for Kaida to claim her mother’s full estate.”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“All of us are immensely talented in at least one field. The tragedy is that most of us spend our lives in the wrong field”
― Anubhav Srivastava, Inspirational Sayings: Get Super Motivated and Achieve Amazing Success through Inspirational Sayings!

“But in that moment, they already saw him as a lucid vision from the nostalgic past like when a deceased loved one visits you in a dream and you wrap them up in your arms and refuse to let go until you wake up tightly clutching your pillow and crying into it, and still you refuse to let go.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“Biggest tragedy of life is when God wants us to glorify Him for our own sakes, but we choose to glorify self for satan's good.”
― indonesia123

“You only become significant when someone is in need of your help.”
― Benjamin C. Verar

“The tragedy of living is not that we die but that we only get one life.”
― William Giraldi

“One's personal life can be such an exquisitely manufactured tragedy, dear boy, that the very thought of 'paradise' seems not merely improbable, but quite frankly, rather ill-considered and lacking in dramatic tension.”
― Unknown Author

“It was in the world of living where they met their tragic ends.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Whereas the received Law of revelation emboldens the Jewish mystic, the true materialist substitutes for Torah practical law or technology—technique, τέχνη. This positions the materialist over the cosmos, not as a member of the cosmos. Materialism always masks an underlying existentialism, and existentialism contains the inevitable character of process and arbitration. This finds the cosmos in need of fixing, in need of work, and for intelligence to act upon it and master it to that end: the divine coming into itself through work. The goal of existentialism, then, is work: as wages are compensation for toil, writ large is the universal tragedy whose last act, its redemption—its “payday”—is yet to come. Where our everyday work finds its necessity is in the cosmic Work whereby the ultimate meaning, the Sublime and the Divine, enters into the world once humanity organizes its rampant chaos.”
― J. Phillip Johnson, The Invention of Work

“How tragic that the body can recover from wounds, while the heart resists healing.”
― Eduvie Donald