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That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

Margaret Atwood

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.

W. Somerset Maugham

The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn’t make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world’s suffering, you go mad.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

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

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